Indie bookselling industry worries retaliatory tariffs could be deathblow скачать в хорошем качестве

Indie bookselling industry worries retaliatory tariffs could be deathblow

With the Canada-U.S. tariff war just days away, people who sell books in Canada say they could be inadvertent victims in the trade war. People in one part of Canada’s economy and culture are afraid this could mean a struggle for survival for them. The irony here is that it wouldn’t be Donald Trump to deliver the deathblow to the bookselling industry. Instead it would be Canada’s own government as the country strikes back at Trump. Janet Hoy, owner of the independent book store The City and The City Books on Ottawa Street North in Hamilton, says this is a scary time for booksellers like her. “A lot of us will close,” she said, “that’s sort of like the bottom line.” Donald Trump is promising a 25 per cent tariff on most goods from Canada, possibly as of this Wednesday. That’s not the problem here. Instead, they’re worried that Canada may retaliate against Trump on Wednesday with a 25 per cent tariff on books coming into Canada.