Donald Trump grabbed on to the idea of hitting Canada with tariffs almost immediately after November's election, and he hasn't let go since. The continued centrality of that country to the president’s tariff talk has been on full display during his first days in office as the intensity and consistency of his comments surpass the rhetoric applied

On Monday and Tuesday, President Trump announced that he would be keeping one of his key campaign promises and imposing by Feb. 1 a 25% tariff on goods from Canada and Mexico as punishment for allowing drugs and migrants to cross into the United States as well as an additional 10% tariff on goods from China to penalize the country for sending