Trump Tariffed Everything Canada Sends America. He Never Noticed Mustard.

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At a ballpark this summer, someone squeezes ordinary yellow mustard onto a hot dog. In a nicer kitchen, someone reaches for Grey Poupon, the condiment that's spent 40 years as pop culture shorthand for European sophistication. Both are using the same Canadian crop. Saskatchewan grows 80-90% of Canada's mustard seed, and Canada is the world's largest mustard seed exporter, commanding more than half the global market — ahead of Ukraine, ahead of France itself. And here's the twist: the majority of the brown seed used in actual French Dijon mustard today comes from Saskatchewan, not Dijon. A crop failure in Burgundy decades ago sent French producers to the Canadian prairie, and they never left. Over two years, Trump tariffed Canadian oats, canola, potash, salt, steel, lumber, and nickel. Mustard never came up — not once. Not because it was exempted by name like canola, but because nobody in Washington ever seems to have asked where America's mustard actually comes from. Getting overlook

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