Breaking down the U.S.-Canada trade war in 4 charts

Trump launched new tariffs on one of the U.S.' closest trade allies in August. But data shows the actual tariffs don't promise to bring in high revenues.

A map of the U.S. and Canada with arrows pointing to various trade

Skills

  • Data cleaning
  • Python and pandas
  • Data visualization

About this project

I pitched this story as a way to help people understand which items are under new tariffs and how that might impact their wallets, but when matching the trade codes with the Census Bureau's historic trade data, it became clear that these tariffs weren't actually going to threaten affordability in the U.S., if they even brought in any money at all.