Canada confirms mirror-image counter-tariffs of 15, 25, and 50 percent on more than 700 United States product categories worth C$27.6 billion, effective Sept. 8, with a C$7.5 billion support package for exposed firms WASHINGTON, Aug. 28, 2026. American exporters have ten days to prepare for the most closely targeted retaliation Canada has ever aimed at…
Four federal ministers unveil the September 8 counter-tariff schedule and a support package of loans and benefits, as provinces threaten energy and mineral leverage and small business groups question whether relief reaches the firms that need it OTTAWA, August 25, 2026 Four members of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet appeared together in Ottawa on Tuesday…
Trump doubles the tariff on Canadian vehicles, parts and trucks to 50 per cent effective January 1, 2027, extending the rate to steel and setting up a decisive year for a sector that employs roughly one in ten Ontario manufacturing workers WINDSOR, Ontario, August 25, 2026 President Donald Trump announced on Monday that the United…
Washington switches on 50 per cent Section 338 duties on roughly US$20 billion of Canadian goods after three days of talks collapse. Ottawa promises a matching strike on September 8, and for the first time in the CUSMA era a valid certificate of origin buys an importer nothing. OTTAWA, AUGUST 24, 2026 The United States…
Ottawa will match Washington’s new duties dollar for dollar from September 8, targeting American steel, dairy, appliances, farm equipment, pulp and paper and electronics. Canadian importers have roughly two weeks to prepare. OTTAWA, August 23, 2026 – Prime Minister Mark Carney has given Canadian industry a date and a target list. Beginning September 8, the…
Roughly 90,000 jobs, two to three tenths of a point off growth, and an average tariff that jumped almost two points overnight. What the numbers say about the August rupture, why British Columbia and Ontario absorb the worst of it, and what a Canadian exporter should do in the next 30 days. OTTAWA, AUGUST 24,…
Carney suspends negotiations and pledges dollar-for-dollar retaliation as Washington’s 50 per cent Section 338 duties hit roughly $28 billion of Canadian exports OTTAWA, August 22, 2026 At 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on Saturday, the most consequential escalation in the Canada-United States trade conflict since early 2025 took legal effect. An additional 50 per cent ad…
Canada and the United States enter the final hours of a three-day reprieve from the first Section 338 tariffs in the statute’s 96-year history, with roughly US$20 billion in cross-border trade riding on documents that still are not signed OTTAWA, August 21, 2026 – Canadian and American negotiators are working against a midnight expiry tonight…
Premiers have agreed to restock American alcohol as a good-faith gesture in the Section 338 endgame, resolving one of Washington’s three formal grievances while exposing the limits of what a government can deliver when the barrier is a consumer, not a customs officer WINNIPEG, August 21, 2026 – Canada’s premiers have agreed to return United…