Tag: Autos

  • EU-China Clash

    Brussels dispatches technical delegation to Beijing as an October deadline for trade rebalancing collides with a deepening standoff over subsidy probes, rare earths and a record one billion euro a day deficit BRUSSELS, Aug. 26: A team of European Union officials will travel to China in the coming days in an attempt to salvage trade…

  • Auto Duty Peril

    Donald Trump’s threat of 50 per cent tariffs on all Canadian cars, trucks, parts and steel from January 1, 2027 puts the country’s second-largest export industry at the centre of the trade war, and Ontario’s assembly towns on notice By the Canada Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting OTTAWA, August 31, 2026 A single social media…

  • GDP vs Tariffs

    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…

  • CUSMA On Brink

    Washington weighs fresh trade penalties and a January 1 jump to 50 per cent auto tariffs as Canada’s retaliation hardens, premiers split on strategy and the North American trade pact edges toward collapse OTTAWA, August 27, 2026 The Canada-United States trade war entered its most dangerous phase this week, with the White House signalling further…

  • Tariff Deadline

    Ottawa pushes for relief across every Section 232 sector as a 50 per cent Section 338 tariff wall closes in on August 19, with steel and aluminum export quotas back on the negotiating table OTTAWA, August 6, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canadian negotiators are pressing Washington for relief across “all strategic sectors” of…