for more i'm joined by my colleague and business reporter timothy mcdonald. is a tough new trade policy from the trump administration. ina way administration. in a way it's not exactly a new policy, they are existing policies, but he's taking a tougher line. carrots have been imposed by administrations of both stripes, balmer slapped tariffs on chinese tires in 2009 —— tariffs —— 0bama. campaigned on this. in october last year he put tariffs on bombardier, a canadian era space company —— he campaigned on this. we might expect more of this as the trump administration progresses —— aerospace company. it is samsung and lg who are the two affected manufacturers from korea. whirlpool, aus manufacturers from korea. whirlpool, a us manufacturer, has been pushing the barrel on this one, saying they have lowered prices to such an extent that they simply can't compete and really this amounts to an unfairtrade compete and really this amounts to an unfair trade practice. of course it will be the us consumer paying it because tariffs just end up in the pricetag and lg and

timothy mcdonald is in the newsroom. how significant is the tpp without the united states?wer is much less significant. given that it is in fact the biggest economy in the world. you are talking about a market of 300 million people. of course, by any objective measure, it is less significant. that said, us wheat growers have expressed concern about not being included. canadian auto workers are worried about being pa rt auto workers are worried about being part of the deal. it is also a very interesting snapshot of where things are at with trade negotiations because on one hand, we have this agreement, which is about come off. we have the president, donald trump, slapping tariffs on chinese solar and large family washing machines and large family washing machines and on top of that, there is an extremely vigorous round of nafta negotiations going on. that is going to be made even trickier by the fact the us has imposed tariffs on canadian aerospace company bombardier. the australian prime minister malcom turnbull said that all would be open for the us should it ever decide t