Allan Woods
Global and National Affairs Reporter at The (Toronto) Star
International news, analysis and feature writer with the Toronto Star newspaper
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1 week ago |
thespec.com | Allan Woods
PARIS—It was something like an American tariff — one that predated President Donald Trump — that convinced one French company of the need to build a firewall against U.S. technology dominance. Paris-based Qwant, which runs a search engine that pledges to protect user privacy, had a licensing agreement with Microsoft for the use of the critical software that powers its search results. “They were perhaps a little ahead of their time.
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3 weeks ago |
thespec.com | Allan Woods
“A catastrophe of an unfathomable magnitude,” said France’s cognac makers, who will contend with new 20 per cent duties. Stock markets slid on the threat of a crystallizing global trade war and economic slowdown. “This is not the act of a friend,” said Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
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3 weeks ago |
stcatharinesstandard.ca | Allan Woods
“A catastrophe of an unfathomable magnitude,” said France’s cognac makers, who will contend with new 20 per cent duties. Stock markets slid on the threat of a crystallizing global trade war and economic slowdown. “This is not the act of a friend,” said Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Some nations, like Britain and India, put a brave face on the bad news, seeing themselves spared the harsher tariff treatment of others.
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3 weeks ago |
thespec.com | Allan Woods
U.S. President Donald Trump has touted April 2 — the day that he unveils widespread tariffs against trading partners — as one that will go down in American history. But as that day dawned, Trump was clearly spooked. In a past-midnight social media post on Wednesday, the American president warned “disloyal” Republican lawmakers against supporting a resolution to rebuke the imposition of fentanyl-and-migrant-related tariffs against Canada.
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3 weeks ago |
thespec.com | Allan Woods
To fight or to fold? On the eve of a new and wider round of American tariffs that U.S. President Donald Trump has billed as “Liberation Day,” world leaders are increasingly divided into two camps. There are those, like Canada, who are bracing for a long and bruising trade war.
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