America’s tariff on Canadian goods; TikTok and ByteDance settle lawsuit, and more

from The World in Brief from The Economist

Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, said his country would retaliate “dollar for dollar” against America’s new 50% tariffs, with its own levies taking effect on September 8th; Vladimir Putin threatened to hit Ukraine’s “most sensitive economic sectors” after it attacked a warehouse run by Ozon, Russia’s second-largest online marketplace, and reportedly targeted a nearby oil refinery Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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