Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada
Paper products among hardest-hit sectors after trade negotiations broke down, with 25-50% tariffs estimated Are you a Canadian boycotting US products? We’d like to hear from you Using the bathroom or having a cry is about to become more expensive for North Americans as the US and Canada enter a full-fledged trade war that threatens to flush away decades of peaceful trading between the two nations. After trade negotia
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- #3018
- First seen
- 26 Aug 2026, 10:14 UTC
- Last checked
- 27 Aug 2026, 13:46 UTC
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- 1 version
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Publisher layer
Recorded article metadata
- Publisher
- The Guardian
- Country
- England / United Kingdom
- Source published
- 26 Aug 2026, 10:00 UTC
- Source updated
- No update timestamp supplied
- Byline
- Lauren Aratani in New York
- Section
- Trump tariffs
Paper products among hardest-hit sectors after trade negotiations broke down, with 25-50% tariffs estimated Are you a Canadian boycotting US products? We’d like to hear from you Using the bathroom or having a cry is about to become more expensive for North Americans as the US and Canada enter a full-fledged trade war that threatens to flush away decades of peaceful trading between the two nations. After trade negotia
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Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada
Paper products among hardest-hit sectors after trade negotiations broke down, with 25-50% tariffs estimated Are you a Canadian boycotting US products? We’d like to hear from you Using the bathroom or having a cry is about to become more expensive for North Americans as the US and Canada enter a full-fledged trade war that threatens to flush away decades of peaceful trading between the two nations. After trade negotia
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- publisher category Donald Trump rss-category
- publisher category Mark Carney rss-category
- publisher category Tariffs rss-category
- publisher category Trump administration rss-category
- publisher category Trump tariffs rss-category
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- publisher category World news rss-category
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Evidence layer
Capture provenance
- Capture ID
- #2716
- Observed
- 26 Aug 2026, 10:14 UTC
- HTTP result
- 200 / parsed
- Raw payload
- 485,614 bytes, private gzip evidence
- Collector
- news-ledger/0.1
- Public boundary
- metadata and excerpt