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President Trump is threatening new tariffs on Canada after wildfire smoke from nearly 900 blazes blanketed large swaths of the United States, triggering air quality alerts for over 100 million Americans and turning the skies orange.

Trump accused Canada of "willful negligence" for failing to engage in basic forest management, calling the cross-border pollution "totally unacceptable" and vowing to add cleanup costs to existing tariffs.

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