Tag: Aluminum
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A new 50 per cent U.S. tariff on Canadian motorboats, mattresses, golf carts, aluminum bars and steel tubing takes effect Tuesday, with import bans on alcohol, whey and motorcycles two weeks behind it, as Ottawa signals no retreat Ottawa, September 14, 2026 At 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, a second wave of 50 per cent U.S. tariffs…
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Canada’s United States Surtax Order (2026) is now live across more than 700 tariff items, and the compliance architecture behind it is proving as consequential for importers as the 15, 25 and 50 per cent rates themselves. OTTAWA, September 11, 2026 The largest single tranche of Canadian counter-tariffs since the trade conflict with Washington began…
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Mexico locks in definitive anti-dumping duties of 1.93 dollars per kilogram on Chinese hollow aluminium profiles and 1.72 dollars on US product, capping an eighteen month investigation that lands squarely in the middle of the country’s broader confrontation with Chinese metals overcapacity. MEXICO CITY, September 7, 2026. Mexico has closed one of the most closely…
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Canada’s surtax on U.S. steel and aluminum jumps from 25 to 50 per cent overnight, iron and steel now accounts for nearly a third of Ottawa’s entire counter-tariff list, and a quota deal that would have halved the rate is back on the table too late to matter. By the Canada Trade Desk | Peacock…
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With one week until Canada’s largest retaliatory tariff package in a generation takes effect, importers race to reroute supply chains, file remission requests and land goods before the September 8 deadline By the Canada Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting OTTAWA, August 31, 2026 One week from tomorrow, at one minute past midnight on September 8,…
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Statistics Canada reported 3.3 per cent annualized second-quarter growth on Friday and erased the first-quarter contraction that had fuelled recession talk. Economists told Finance Minister Champagne the same week that the new tariff round is survivable. Both statements are true, and neither describes what happens next. OTTAWA, August 29, 2026. Canada entered the sharpest phase…
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Ottawa rolls out a $7.5 billion emergency package of loans, worker supports and diversification funds as tariff damage spreads through Canadian steel, lumber, dairy and small business OTTAWA, August 27, 2026 Behind the headline drama of Canada’s retaliatory tariffs against the United States sits a quieter but arguably more consequential announcement: a $7.5 billion package…
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A four million tonne steel quota at 25 per cent, aluminum halved, autos cut to 15 per cent and lumber left dangling. Inside the metals and vehicles package Ottawa had all but signed, and the reasons Canadian industry told the Prime Minister to walk away from it. TORONTO, AUGUST 24, 2026 For about 72 hours…
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Comments close Thursday on 14 new Section 232 derivative categories that would pull tubas, floor safes and propane cylinders into the metals tariff net, and the inclusions machine shows no sign of slowing WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 2026 American importers have until Thursday to tell the Commerce Department why brass-wind musical instruments, floor safes and filled…
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The package that died in Washington would have halved steel and aluminum duties, cut auto tariffs to 15 per cent and opened formal CUSMA talks. What Canadian producers lost, and what they keep HAMILTON, Ontario, August 22, 2026 The tariffs that made headlines on Saturday morning were not the ones that matter most to Canadian…