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President Trump wants to impose 50% tariffs on an array of Canadian goods.
“It's both retaliation for Canada itself retaliating against U.S. tariffs.”
It's also a part of an attempt to re-impose tariffs after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled many unlawful earlier this year. And here's Daniel Kurtzleben has more. The new action by the White House constitutes a high tariff on goods from one of the U.S. is biggest trading partners.
The new fees are set to take effect in a month. The White House says Canada is among the only countries along with China to retaliate against U.S. tariffs and that these latest levies are in response to the continued Canadian retaliation on goods like U.S. liquor and automobiles. The new 50% fees apply to a variety of goods including food and agriculture products and also
some types of wood. However, there is still a month until they take effect, meaning there's still time to negotiate. Daniel Kurtzleben and PR news. U.S. trade representative Jamison Greer tells CNBC he expects Trump to enact another
“round of tariffs for other countries soon.”
As Iran and the U.S. continue to exchange strikes over control of the Strait of Hormuz, Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels say they will block another water on the other side of Saudi Arabia. And here's Emily Fang has more. It would be in this waterway called the Bob Al-Mendib Strait.
It connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Eden and ultimately the Indian Ocean on one end.
And on the other, the Suez Canal all the way up to the Mediterranean Sea, and this Strait lets Saudi Arabia, which is one of the biggest oil producers in the world, now get millions of barrels of oil a day out to the open ocean for export, and it needs the Strait, especially because the Strait of Hormuz has been effectively closed by the U.S. Iran War. So any Houthi blockade would rattle energy markets even more and raise energy prices even
higher. Here's Emily Fang reporting. The FDA has retracted test results identifying cycle of spora on samples of lettuce from
“tailor farms in Mexico, but it says the company is still a focus of its investigation”
into the outbreak, and here's Yuki Naguchi reports. Cyclospora parasites are hard to test for and trace. The tested sample might not reflect the entire crop, for example. Plus, Rutgers, microbiologist Donald Schaffner says, "There are often unrelated cases that crop up every summer."
Just because your sick was like, "Well, spora right now doesn't mean that you're part of this cluster of cases that have an epicenter in Michigan and Ohio. Sometimes we can figure out what's causing it, and sometimes we can't." For now, regulators recommend avoiding the recalled tailor farms lettuce. Yuki Naguchi and PR News.
Even on's President Joseph Arun meets with President Trump today in Washington. This says Lebanon and Israel continue to hold rare direct talks mediated by the U.S. You're listening to NPR News. A new study finds many packaged foods claiming to contain avocado oil, don't contain what the label says.
And here's Maria Gidoi says the findings appear in the journal "Applied Food Research." As they ask of the grocery store and you'll find chips, dressings, and mayonnaise all boasting that they're made with avocado oil. But when you see Davis professor Selena Wong noticed this trend, she got curious because her past research has found that most bottled avocado oils sold in stores are either
answered or they've been adulterated with other oils.
So she submitted 54 products to chemical analysis and found that 89 percent showed signs
of being mixed with other cheaper oils, like soybean oil. If you're buying avocado oil products, it's very likely that you're not getting what you're paying for. She says that's a problem because avocado oil products are often significantly more expensive than those made with other oils.
Maria Gidoi and PR News. Powerball tickets went on sale in the UK today, giving players across the Atlantic, the chance at winning the same jackpot as Americans already play for. The expansion was announced in April and it marks the first time a lottery outside the U.S. contributes to the Powerball jackpot.
Prices in the UK only go to the jackpot, not Powerball's lower prices. Gas prices have again topped $4 a gallon on average as the U.S. has rarely wore in Iran continues.
Drivelace says prices jumped 16 cents a gallon, again of 3 percent over the past week.
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