Tag: Canada Tariffs
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Automotive rules have become the rock on which a Canada-U.S. trade deal keeps foundering, with Washington demanding an end to Canadian auto retaliation, Ottawa chasing relief from a 25 percent vehicle tariff, and an Ontario assembly plant hanging in the balance. WASHINGTON, August 18, 2026 If the last minute negotiations to head off Wednesday’s 50…
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Quebec’s premier convenes an emergency meeting on agriculture as Canada’s supply-managed dairy sector, along with thousands of small exporters from hockey stick makers to cabinet shops, braces for Wednesday’s 50 percent American tariff MONTREAL, August 16, 2026 The anxiety radiating through Canada’s farm belt and factory floors this weekend is most acute in Quebec, where…
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The United States trade representative says Canada must scrap its retaliatory measures, starting with provincial bans on American alcohol, to avoid new 50 percent tariffs, while sources say Washington is offering no meaningful relief on softwood lumber WASHINGTON, August 16, 2026 The price of peace, as Washington defines it, came into sharp focus this weekend.…
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Canadian businesses choose watchful waiting over panic shipping as the 50 percent tariff deadline approaches, betting that Washington will blink again By Peacock Tariff Consulting Trade Desk | TORONTO, August 15, 2026 With five days until the United States imposes 50 percent tariffs on nearly 20 billion United States dollars in Canadian exports, the country’s…
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Washington’s settlement offer excludes softwood lumber relief and demands the immediate return of American alcohol to provincial shelves, sources say, leaving the two sides far apart days before new tariffs bite By Peacock Tariff Consulting Trade Desk | OTTAWA, August 15, 2026 The shape of a possible Canada-United States trade deal came into focus Friday,…
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Quebec convened emergency sector meetings, Ontario refused to restock American whisky, and federal ministers briefed their provincial counterparts as a 50 per cent tariff deadline exposed the seams in Canada’s negotiating coalition. MONTREAL, Aug. 14, 2026 Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette spent Thursday in a Montreal boardroom with the province’s leading economic stakeholders, working through a…
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Two days before the steepest US tariffs ever aimed at Canada take effect, businesses on both sides of the border rush shipments, rewrite contracts and brace for a Tuesday that could reshape 20 billion dollars in trade TORONTO, August 17, 2026 In warehouses along the 401 corridor, in dairies in Quebec, in wineries in the…
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Softwood lumber emerges as the hardest file in the eleventh-hour Canada-US trade talks, as Washington resists relief on duties approaching 45 percent and Canadian mills absorb another season of curtailments OTTAWA, August 17, 2026 As Canadian and American negotiators worked through the weekend to head off sweeping new 50 percent tariffs set to take effect…
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Canada and the United States enter the final 48 hours before sweeping 50 percent tariffs take effect, with negotiators mapping a package for President Trump but a wide gap still separating the two sides WASHINGTON, August 17, 2026 With less than 48 hours remaining before the United States imposes 50 percent tariffs on roughly 20…
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Ottawa revives a two-tier tariff-rate quota proposal for steel and aluminum as Dominic LeBlanc returns to Washington with two weeks left on the clock before a 50 per cent Section 338 duty lands on roughly US$20 billion of Canadian exports OTTAWA, Aug. 5, 2026 – Canada’s negotiators have put a familiar idea back on the table…