About six months ago, Canadian shoppers had braced for prices to soar after the Trump administration first slapped tariffs on a range of Canadian imports and Canada responded with counterlevies.

Some things have undoubtedly gotten more expensive, but not all the price spikes have been as high as anticipated, while some prices have held steady or fallen.

Kitchen and bathroom appliances, furniture, cars, beer and canned goods saw the biggest price spikes in the months after U.S. President Donald Trump slapped 25- to 50-per-cent tariffs on a range of Canadian imports starting this spring and Canada retaliated with 25-per-cent levies on billions of dollars worth of U.S. goods.

According to Statistics Canada data, shoppers paid 8.6 per cent more, on average, for cooking appliances su

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