U.S. trade policy toward Canada is more restrictive than average tariff rates suggest

Note: The TRI tariff rate, proposed by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis monetary adviser Michael Waugh in a January paper, is an alternative measure of the true economic pain for U.S. consumers that arises from the current highly uneven tariff regime, which features higher tariffs on critical imported products like autos, steel and aluminum, and is not captured by the conventional measure of average tariff rates.
THE GLOBE AND MAIL Source: Michael Waugh, National Bureau of Economic Research, Tradewartracker.com