Tag: Canada
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Five days out from the first outright United States import bans on Canadian goods since the Smoot-Hawley era, Ottawa and Washington are not talking, and the exporters caught in the middle are running out of room OTTAWA, September 24, 2026. Canadian exporters of beer, wine, spirits, whey, molasses and large-displacement motorcycles have five business days…
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Ottawa and New Delhi accelerate toward a comprehensive economic partnership agreement as Canada searches for markets beyond a hostile United States, with ministers now targeting a year end conclusion and a doubling of two way trade by 2030 MUMBAI, September 23, 2026 – Canada’s push to conclude a comprehensive economic partnership agreement with India moved…
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Canada quietly ends eleven years of anti-dumping and countervailing duties on Chinese photovoltaic modules after domestic producers decline to defend the order, reshaping cost assumptions for solar developers on both sides of the border OTTAWA, September 23, 2026 – Canada has ended more than a decade of trade protection for its domestic solar manufacturing sector,…
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Canada’s dollar-for-dollar countermeasures on C$27.6 billion of American goods took effect at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, hitting more than 700 tariff lines at 15, 25 and 50 per cent and forcing importers into an immediate reassessment of sourcing, pricing and contracts. OTTAWA, September 9, 2026 – Canada’s largest retaliatory tariff package of the current trade conflict…
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Provisional duties on wheat gluten, preliminary determinations on Chinese steel racks, a rescinded solar order and a fresh tire investigation landed within days of each other, marking one of the densest weeks on Canada’s trade remedy docket in years OTTAWA, September 22, 2026 Canada’s trade remedy machinery does not usually make headlines. In the week…
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Ottawa closes a fourth negotiating round in Mumbai and heads straight into an ASEAN ministerial in Manila, turning trade diversification from a talking point into a deadline-driven file for Canadian exporters MUMBAI and OTTAWA, September 22, 2026 Canada’s trade diversification strategy stopped being theoretical this week. International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu wrapped a two-day mission…
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After Ursula von der Leyen offered Canada an unprecedented associate membership in the European Union, President Trump warned of very heavy tariffs on Europe if he judges the gesture hostile, injecting fresh uncertainty into a transatlantic trade relationship that has been unsettled since February WASHINGTON, SEPT. 19, 2026 President Donald Trump has threatened to impose…
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Stellantis tells its workers that trade policy has destroyed the business case for a 269-acre Ontario assembly plant, Unifor declares an impasse as the contract expires, and Ottawa discovers the limits of a tariff strategy that cannot keep a factory open. BRAMPTON, Ont., Sept. 20, 2026 The collective agreement covering more than 9,000 Stellantis workers…
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Global Affairs Canada concedes its import permit system buckled under an exceptional volume of steel applications, generating duplicate permits and exposing how thin Canadian steel quota has become OTTAWA, September 20, 2026 Canada’s steel import quota system failed under its own demand this week, and the government has acknowledged it. Global Affairs Canada issued a…
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With nine days until Washington closes its border to packaged Canadian beer, wine and spirits, Ontario’s liquor monopoly is spending its way into the domestic aisle while distillers who sell half their output south confront a market that simply disappears. TORONTO, Sept. 20, 2026 Canada’s alcohol industry has nine days to move whatever it can…