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It seems he's learned that the problem with tariffs is that other countries will tariff back.
So now his current strategy is to levy tariffs and threaten countries with more tariffs if they reciprocate.
Same has it's always been, maybe he'll TACO or maybe he'll crash the world economy.
Meanwhile in Canada, it's become easier to identify products from the US because stores have to put them on discount to try to entice people to buy them. Stores aren't making money by selling US products at a discount so every time I go to the grocery store, there's new products made in Canada (or at least non-US countries) replacing the US products.
Happy to report I can now get a head of iceberg lettuce from Quebec in both grocery stores I go to, seems all of our lettuce came from the US before. I had to get crazy expensive hydroponically grown lettuce (or some weird black lettuce) for months. But now I can get iceberg lettuce ("normal" lettuce to me) produced in Canada. It was weird for a bit with some products, but it's becoming more and more easier and normal to avoid US products. Merci to Quebec for growing lettuce! Hopefully the stores will source lettuce from the EU in the winter.
Not sure how Trump is solving the trade deficit "problem" with this though. Are Americans in the the Midwest buying less oil from Canada (which is THE cause of the trade deficit)? Gonna have to spend a lot of money building pipelines to get oil from the "Gulf of America" and refitting refineries to process that oil. Or God forbid, do a Green New Deal in the Midwest. Otherwise you'd be selling less oil overseas, which would impact trade balance with other countries. But then Canada would sell to those countries instead. But go ahead, fill your boots, I'm good with oil companies having to pay a lot of money refitting refineries as that will just be another version (though less efficient) of a carbon tax.
Canadians are buying less products from the US and it seems unlikely the US is going to buy less oil from Canada any time soon, so it seems Trump's efforts are just increasing the trade deficit. Carney could put reciprocal tariffs on the US or not, either way Canadians are going to be buying less and less from the US going forward.
Trump is fucking over Americans more than anyone else.