via US news | The Guardian — Trump himself has acknowledged the US need for Canadian aluminum – and has largely exempted metals from new tariffs As trade talks with Canada shambled toward collapse in late August, Donald Trump brayed on Truth Social: “WE DON’T NEED CANADA, THEY NEED US!” But in fact, Canada, like China, has something the US needs badly: critical metals that undergird modern military technology. Canada is the United States’s biggest foreign source of minerals, supplying about $47bin worth each year. Sixty per

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