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US and Canada brawl over hockey sticks — so China skates off with big trade wins

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It’s like a fistfight between conjoined twins: The United States and Canada are throwing tariffs and insults at each other tit-for-tat in one of the most unnecessary trade wars in recent memory.

“I don’t want Canadian cars. I don’t want Canadian parts. I don’t want Canadian anything,” President Donald Trump posted Sunday, before comparing the tariffs on Canada to his administration’s war against Iran.

But while Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney try to check each other into the boards, China is skating free — scoring economic goals at will and choking out North American manufacturing.

And instead of facing Beijing’s economic threat, we’re busy taxing hockey sticks.

Not all hockey sticks, of course — only the wooden ones still made in Canada, which will now face a 50% tariff when shipped to the US.

The trouble is, almost no one uses wooden hockey sticks anymore.

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Only one Canadian factory even makes them, shipping a modest 100,000 sticks to........

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