What Trump means when he says America is ‘losing $200 billion’ a year to Canada | CNN Business

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When President-elect Donald Trump recently floated the idea of annexing Canada, a key reason he gave was a claim that the United States was “losing $200 billion a year” to its northern neighbor.

Speaking at Mar-a-Lago last week, Trump didn’t specify what constituted the $200 billion, but he used the figure in the context of how the US “subsidized” Canada and also had a “massive” trade deficit for items — such as cars and lumber — that he said the US does not need.

The lion’s share of the $200 billion was

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