Tag: Alcohol

  • US Import Ban

    Five presidential proclamations signed Tuesday bar most Canadian alcohol, several dairy lines and larger motorcycles from the United States market beginning September 29, replacing tariffs with outright prohibition and removing the CUSMA shelter that Canadian exporters had relied on. OTTAWA, September 9, 2026 – The United States moved on Tuesday from taxing Canadian goods to…

  • Liquor Standoff

    Quebec declares the American alcohol boycott a matter of provincial jurisdiction alone, complicating a federal negotiation in which liquor shelves have become a tariff trigger OTTAWA, August 9, 2026 – The Quebec government has told Ottawa and Washington that American alcohol will remain off provincial liquor store shelves until the province is satisfied with the…

  • Booze Ban Fight

    Ottawa’s three part concession package on alcohol, dairy quota allocation and auto counter tariffs runs into a constitutional wall as Ontario attaches conditions and British Columbia refuses outright OTTAWA, August 8, 2026. The Canadian government has put a full concession package on the table in Washington in an effort to head off 50 per cent…

  • Tariff Fallout

    The new 50 percent duties land on an economy already bruised by a year of trade conflict, while steel, aluminium, autos and softwood lumber remain trapped in a separate limbo the latest measure does nothing to resolve. TORONTO, July 22, 2026 The 50 percent duties President Donald Trump imposed on roughly US$20 billion of Canadian…

  • Sec 338 Duties

    Washington revives a dormant 1930 statute to place 50 percent duties on roughly US$20 billion of Canadian goods, from wine to hockey sticks, in the sharpest escalation of the cross-border trade war this year. WASHINGTON, July 22, 2026 President Donald Trump has reached back nearly a century into American trade law to strike one of…

  • Sectors Brace

    From Niagara wineries to Quebec cement plants and the hockey equipment lines of small-town Ontario, Canadian industry begins a 30-day sprint to outrun a 50 percent American tariff, while importers and brokers scramble to reprice the border TORONTO, July 21, 2026 The phone calls started before the proclamations were even posted. Within hours of the…

  • Tariff Shock

    Washington invokes a never-before-used 1930 trade law to hit $20 billion in Canadian goods with 50 percent duties, sweeping aside CUSMA protections and opening a volatile new front in the North American trade war WASHINGTON, July 20, 2026 President Donald Trump signed three proclamations on Monday imposing an additional 50 percent tariff on roughly $20…