Apart from cheaper wine, it's hard to say whether Canada will win or lose from a Europe-U.S. trade war

It's always hard to be sure whether U.S. President Donald Trump's trade tweets are fits of pique or official policy.

But a brand new attack on trade with Europe, including threats by the U.S. trade office of tariffs on $11 billion US worth of European goods, could spell a trade advantage for Canada, although that is far from guaranteed.

The damaging worldwide effects of trade tension are beginning to pile up, leading to yesterday's downgrade in global growth by the International Monetary Fund...

This was excerpted from the10 April 2019 edition of CBC News.