US to ban imports of some Canadian alcohol, dairy goods and motorbikes

Washington has targeted "significant industries" for Canada, including its politically influential dairy businesses, said economics lecturer Scott French from the University of New South Wales in Australia.Trump has previously argued that Canada's system - which has production quotas, set pricing, and import limits on dairy, eggs, and poultry - is unreasonable to US farmers.The import bans and new tariffs will also put Canada's leaders under more pressure to resist Trump's demands for concessions, French said.The trade war will be "costly for both sides due to the historical level of integration of the North American economy," he said, adding that consumers on both sides will end up as "the biggest losers".On Monday, Trump hinted at more trade restrictions to come, warning Canadian aircraft company Bombardier that it would no longer be able to sell its products in the US unless it moved manufacturing there.Trump has long believed that tariffs will help reduce trade imbalances between the US and other countries, but his wide-ranging levies have upset many of the States' traditional allies.Some Canadians have led a massive boycott of US products like alcohol, which have vanished from some store shelves after Trump launched his global tariff campaign last year.