This week, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to issue a ban on the sale of aircraft made by Bombardier Inc. unless it moves manufacturing to the United States. “If they want our Market, they must build here, and stop treating America like a ‘piggybank,’” Trump said in a Truth Social post on Monday, the day before retaliatory tariffs from Canada went into effect. But Bombardier, a snowmobile-maker-turned-business-jet-giant with headquarters in Montreal, has deep ties in both its supply chain and customer base south of the border. Here, Financial Post explains how Bombardier grew then drastically pruned back its business over decades, what it does today and why Trump is targeting it in his escalation of the U.S.-Canada trade war. Read More
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What you need to know about Bombardier and how it become a trade war flashpoint
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