Tag: Canada-US Trade
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Canada readies $20 billion in dollar-for-dollar counter-tariffs on US steel, dairy and farm equipment for September 8, leaving the North American trade pact and US exporters exposed WASHINGTON, Aug. 24, 2026 By the US Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting American exporters woke up Monday to a countdown clock. Canada will impose roughly $20 billion in…
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A four million tonne steel quota at 25 per cent, aluminum halved, autos cut to 15 per cent and lumber left dangling. Inside the metals and vehicles package Ottawa had all but signed, and the reasons Canadian industry told the Prime Minister to walk away from it. TORONTO, AUGUST 24, 2026 For about 72 hours…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…