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Ed Gresser, a former assistant U.S. trade representative now working at the Progressive Policy Institute, said that was clear from the items Canada chose, including lobster and seafood. Half of the lobster caught in Maine goes to Canada, he said, and Maine has an important election this fall that will help determine control of the Senate.
“The states that are most reliant on Canada as an export market are often the northern-tier states—Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, New Hampshire,” Gresser said. Canada is “trying to show the Republican party that there’s a systemic cost to doing this sort of thing.”
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