Tag: Canada-US Trade
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Carney has asked premiers to return American alcohol to liquor store shelves and stop excluding the United States from procurement, dismantling the retaliation that Washington converted into a legal finding of discrimination CHARLOTTETOWN, August 20, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney used a virtual first ministers meeting on Wednesday to ask every province and territory to…
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Negotiators have sketched a tentative arrangement cutting Section 232 steel and aluminium duties to 25 per cent and auto tariffs to 15 per cent, but derivative products, exclusions and aluminium traceability remain unresolved WASHINGTON, August 20, 2026 The most commercially significant element of the emerging Canada-United States trade arrangement is not the 50 per cent…
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Washington shelved a 50 per cent tariff on roughly US$20 billion of Canadian goods with less than two hours to spare, but no legal text has been published and the reprieve expires Saturday OTTAWA, August 20, 2026 The first tariff in nearly a century imposed under Section 338 of the United States Tariff Act of…
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Opposition letter accuses Ottawa of eighteen months of one-way concessions and sets out a four-point test for any deal before the August 19 tariff deadline OTTAWA, August 9, 2026 – The Canadian government’s approach to the United States trade file came under direct opposition attack Sunday, as Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre released a letter to…
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Quebec declares the American alcohol boycott a matter of provincial jurisdiction alone, complicating a federal negotiation in which liquor shelves have become a tariff trigger OTTAWA, August 9, 2026 – The Quebec government has told Ottawa and Washington that American alcohol will remain off provincial liquor store shelves until the province is satisfied with the…
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Canadian producers tell Ottawa that supply management is not currency as Washington talks accelerate toward an August 19 tariff wall OTTAWA, August 9, 2026 – Canada’s dairy producers have drawn the sharpest public line yet against the federal government’s negotiating strategy with the United States, warning that any further loosening of the supply management system…
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Ottawa’s three part concession package on alcohol, dairy quota allocation and auto counter tariffs runs into a constitutional wall as Ontario attaches conditions and British Columbia refuses outright OTTAWA, August 8, 2026. The Canadian government has put a full concession package on the table in Washington in an effort to head off 50 per cent…
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Carney concedes Canada is “in the middle of a tariff war” as Washington negotiations sour with twelve days left before a 50 per cent duty wall rises on roughly $20 billion in Canadian goods OTTAWA, August 8, 2026. Prime Minister Mark Carney publicly acknowledged this week that Canada and the United States are engaged in…
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A Quebec remanufacturer that spent seven years outside the U.S. countervailing duty order on softwood lumber has been put back inside it, and the case that did it is a warning about how long trade litigation can run and how little finality a favourable rate confers. WASHINGTON, Aug. 7, 2026. The U.S. Department of Commerce…
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Ottawa revives tariff rate quotas on steel and aluminum exports in a bid to buy relief from Section 232 duties, even as officials dispute how close the two sides really are with 12 days left before a new 50 percent tariff wave lands. OTTAWA, Aug. 7, 2026. Canadian negotiators have put export quotas on steel…