Trump claimed the US doesn’t do ‘much business with Canada.’ Canada is the world’s top buyer of US exports

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Trump claimed the US doesn’t do ‘much business with Canada.’ Canada is the world’s top buyer of US exports

During his

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with ********* Prime Minister Mark Carney, President Donald Trump falsely minimized the importance of the US trade relationship with Canada.

“We don’t do much business with Canada from our standpoint. They do a lot of business with us. We’re at like 4%,” Trump

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That “4%” figure is wrong. Official US data shows that Canada bought about 17% of US goods exports in

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and

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, the last month for which data is available – more than any other country. Canada bought about 16% of US goods exports

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, second only to Mexico.

Trump’s “we don’t do much business with Canada from our standpoint” claim is too subjective to render a definitive fact-check verdict, but Carney’s

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that “we are the largest client of the United States” is confirmed by the US government itself. Official US data

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that Canada bought about $440 billion worth of US goods and services in 2024, more than any other country, and the Office of the US Trade Representative

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that “in 2024, Canada was the top destination for U.S. exports” as well as “the third-largest source of U.S. imports.”

Trump also

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his

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that the US is “subsidizing Canada to the tune of maybe $200 billion per year.” Trump has previously

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that he is speaking about the US trade deficit with Canada, but that is not even close to $200 billion.

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show the 2024 deficit with Canada in goods and services trade was about $36 billion.

Even if you only count trade in goods and ignore the services trade at which the US excels, the deficit was about $71 billion. And even if he was this time using the word “subsidizing” to describe unspecified other things in addition to the trade deficit, there is no

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