Tag: Canada Tariffs


  • Import Ban Day

    Thirteen days remain before packaged Canadian beer, wine and spirits, along with whey, molasses, non alcoholic beer and motorcycles above 800 cc, are excluded from entry into the United States altogether. Customs brokers are racing to clear inventory, trade counsel are parsing a transitional rule, and Canadian distillers are confronting a market closure rather than…

  • Summit Pledges

    Ottawa closed its first Canada Investment Summit with nearly $500 billion in commitments, a corporate tax deduction it says will give Canada the lowest effective rate on new business investment in the G7, and a plan to sell long term concessions on the country’s four largest airports. The pitch is a tariff strategy by another…

  • Duty Stack Hits

    Washington’s revised Section 338 proclamations took force on September 15, layering 50 per cent duties on top of existing Section 232 metals tariffs for the first time and pushing the combined additional rate on some Canadian steel and aluminum structural goods to 75 per cent. Motorboats, furniture, lighting and printing paper joined the list. Cement,…

  • Duties Stack Up

    Revised U.S. Section 338 tariff lists take effect today, adding Canadian cheese, structural steel, aluminum, furniture and ATVs while dropping road salt and cement, and for the first time letting 50 per cent duties stack on top of Section 232 metals tariffs Ottawa, September 15, 2026 | Peacock Tariff Consulting Canada Trade Desk As of…

  • Summit Pitch

    With U.S. tariffs at 50 per cent and import bans two weeks away, Carney gathers investors managing US$120 trillion in Toronto to sell Canada as a rules-based alternative, landing a C$50 billion data-centre commitment on day one Toronto, September 15, 2026 | Peacock Tariff Consulting Canada Trade Desk Prime Minister Mark Carney opened the two-day…

  • Red Lines Set

    Carney says Canada is ready to return to the table with Washington after Trump predicts a deal “fairly soon,” but Ottawa insists sovereignty, culture and trade-deal freedom are not negotiable Toronto, September 15, 2026 | Peacock Tariff Consulting Canada Trade Desk Three weeks after Canada walked away from the negotiating table and the United States…

  • Boat Duty Looms

    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…

  • Boycott Bites

    Canada’s buy-Canadian movement has gone from mood to mechanism, forcing grocers to relabel shelves, rewire supply chains and absorb costs as counter-tariffs on U.S. food take hold Toronto, September 14, 2026 The trade war between Canada and the United States has reached the produce aisle. A Reuters report published Saturday, drawing on interviews with independent…

  • Tariff Swap Day

    At 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, Washington drops rock salt, cement, toilet tissue and refined lead from its 50 per cent Section 338 tariff on Canadian goods and adds furniture, paper, aluminum products, all-terrain vehicles, motorboats and more cheese. Two weeks later the first outright U.S. import ban on Canadian products since the 1940s takes hold. Here…

  • Banff War Room

    Mark Carney’s cabinet wrapped a two-day retreat in the Rockies on Friday having chosen restraint over a fresh round of retaliation. The prime minister called Washington’s newest measures “relatively modest,” Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc confirmed back-channel conversations with Jamieson Greer and Howard Lutnick are continuing, and ministers spent as much time on interprovincial trade barriers…