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Bar chart showing 17.5 billion dollars in federal tariff response programs, with about 5 percent of funding deployed so far.

Canada's counter-tariffs on steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, and electronics take effect September 8, matching U.S. tariffs dollar for dollar. Ottawa has responded with four federal support programs worth a combined $17.5 billion, led by a $10 billion large enterprise loan facility, though only a small share had been deployed as of early September, split between loans to Algoma Steel and Arctic Canadian Diamond Company.

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