Experts: U.S. tariffs on copper

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced plans to impose a 50 per cent tariff on all copper imported into the United States.

These McGill experts are available to comment:

Diya Jiang, PhD candidate and course lecturer, Department of Political Science, has expertise in Canada-U.S. relations, supply chain geopolitics, public opinion and international political economy.
Diya.jiang [at] mail.mcgill.ca (English, French)

Preetika Joshi, Assistant Professor, Desautels Faculty of Management has expertise in the determinants, economic consequences and real- and capital-market effects of taxation, including tariffs.
preetika.joshi [at] mcgill.ca (English)

Julian Vikan Karaguesian, Course lecturer, Department of Economics, can speak about Canada-U.S. relations and co-operation. During his 25 years in the Canadian Ministry of Finance and the Embassy of Canada in Washington D.C (as Finance Counsellor), he worked on the Canada–U.S. economic relationship (including trade, investment, G7) and can speak to the effects of tariffs on Canadian industries.
julian.karaguesian [at] mcgill.ca (English)