Osler, a Canadian law firm, has tried to explain what’s happening with U.S. tariffs in a post on its website. It’s likely tariffs will persist, regardless of court decisions in the United States. Photo: Osler screenshot

Confused by Trump’s tariffs? Better ask a lawyer

A Canadian law firm is using its website in an attempt to make sense of the ongoing and difficult to understand trade chaos

Osler, a business law firm with offices in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Ottawa, Vancouver and New York, attempted to make sense of the ongoing trade chaos in a June 3 post on its website.



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Making sense of tariff terror

Farm Financial Planner: Tariffs’ effects on Canada’s sales of actual goods to the U.S. should not be as catastrophic as feared

If you see Trump’s tariff war as a man-bites-dog story, you’re right. The history of U.S. tariffs is a tale of tragedy and “we shouldn’t have done that” economics.