Tag: Canada-US Trade
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Trump says he is “in no rush” to restart negotiations with Ottawa. A Jan. 1 deadline would double tariffs on Canadian-built vehicles and parts to 50 per cent, and the industry has twelve weeks to plan around a conversation nobody is having. WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2026. President Donald Trump told reporters this week that he…
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Calgary says two-thirds of its half-billion-dollar tariff exposure comes from Ottawa’s own retaliation, not Washington’s. Municipalities want a carve-out that the remission framework does not currently give them. CALGARY, Oct. 7, 2026. City councillors here are asking the federal government to exempt municipalities from Canada’s own counter-tariffs, after administration warned that between $308 million and…
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Canada posted a record $11.2 billion merchandise surplus with the United States in August as shippers raced to beat Washington’s Section 338 duties. Economists call it a borrowed quarter. OTTAWA, Oct. 7, 2026. Canada’s merchandise trade surplus with the United States widened to $11.2 billion in August from $6.1 billion in July, the largest one-month…
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At 12:01 a.m. on September 29 the United States stopped accepting roughly $967 million in Canadian dairy, motorcycles and beverages under a revived 1930 statute. Three days on, the measure has exposed how little protection CUSMA now offers, how exposed single-market exporters have become, and how few good options remain on either side. OTTAWA, October…
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Cleveland-Cliffs will indefinitely idle cold-rolled and coated operations at Stelco’s Hamilton Works from October 9, cutting as many as 500 jobs. Ottawa is weighing enforcement action under the Investment Canada Act over five-year employment undertakings attached to the 2024 takeover, while the union accuses the company of lobbying for the tariffs it now blames. HAMILTON,…
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Washington’s Section 338 prohibition on packaged Canadian alcohol took effect September 29, closing a market worth roughly $1.2 billion a year to Canadian distillers, brewers and wineries. Ottawa and the provinces are scrambling with liquidity support while producers discover that a bulk-shipment loophole is dividing the industry into winners and losers. OTTAWA, October 2, 2026…
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Alcoholic beverages account for 87 percent of the US$1 billion American exclusion order that took force on September 29, striking a Canadian spirits sector that sends 93 percent of its exports to one customer and now faces a domestic market still fractured by provincial barriers. TORONTO, September 29, 2026. Canada’s distillers, brewers, cider makers and…
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Canpotex breaks ground on a $500 million expansion at Neptune Bulk Terminals as Ottawa’s trade diversification push moves from rhetoric to poured concrete, with Asian, European and Indian markets in view. NORTH VANCOUVER, British Columbia, September 28, 2026 While Canadian distillers count down to a U.S. import ban and the automotive sector watches a January…
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With 95 days until Washington’s threatened 50 per cent tariffs on Canadian vehicles, parts and steel take effect, the U.S. Trade Representative says there is no urgency to make a deal. Canada’s auto belt is doing the math. WINDSOR, Ontario, September 28, 2026 Ninety-five days separate Canada’s automotive sector from January 1, 2027, the date…
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Eight days before Washington bars Canadian whey from entering the United States, customs guidance is still unpublished, the global protein market is already short, and the loudest voice against the ban is the American dairy processing industry ABBOTSFORD, British Columbia, September 21, 2026 At 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, September 29, Canadian whey stops…