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President Trump announced Monday that the U.S. is working on a deal to buy potash, a key fertilizer ingredient, from Belarus as he looks to ramp up his trade war with Canada, the world's largest fertilizer producer. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is urgently trying to reduce dependence on the United States as President Donald Trump uses tariffs and economic pressure against America’s longtime ally Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on about $20 billion worth of U.S. goods take effect Tuesday, turning its escalating trade war with President Donald Trump into a test watched far beyond the border: Can a country much smaller than the United States stand u...