Trump Put a 50% Tariff on Canada's Steel. He Forgot America Can't Make Enough of Its Own.

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More than a quarter of all the steel the United States imports comes from a single country — and it's not China. It's Canada. In 2025, Canada was the largest foreign supplier of steel to America: ~3.3 million tonnes, about 28% of all imported steel. It's in your car, your fridge, the bridge you drove over this morning, and the can your dinner comes in. And in just five months, Trump's tariff on it went from 0% to 50%. Here's the fact even America's own steel bosses admit: the U.S. consumes more steel than it produces, and has for a long time — it's one of the largest steel importers on Earth. You can't conjure a new mill out of a speech; they take years and billions to build. So a 50% tariff doesn't bring the steel home. It just taxes everything made of steel. And the bill lands on you. Estimates of the hit to a single car run from ~$300 (the steel industry's own lowball) to $2,000-$4,000 (independent economists). The sharpest blow is at the grocery store: the U.S. can-making industr

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