Tag: Canada
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Canada’s dollar-for-dollar surtaxes on C$27.6 billion of American goods take effect at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, but as of Monday morning importers and brokers still had no Order in Council and no CBSA customs notice to file against OTTAWA, September 7, 2026 Canada’s largest single act of trade retaliation in the current dispute with the United…
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Canada confirms mirror-image counter-tariffs of 15, 25, and 50 percent on more than 700 United States product categories worth C$27.6 billion, effective Sept. 8, with a C$7.5 billion support package for exposed firms WASHINGTON, Aug. 28, 2026. American exporters have ten days to prepare for the most closely targeted retaliation Canada has ever aimed at…
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Commerce sets preliminary antidumping margins above 100 percent on citric acid from India while clearing Canadian producers, ordering cash deposits at the border effective immediately WASHINGTON, Aug. 27, 2026 – The Commerce Department has preliminarily determined that citric acid and certain citrate salts from India are being sold in the United States at less than…
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Economists are unanimous that the Bank of Canada will leave its policy rate at 2.25 per cent on Wednesday, but the escalating tariff conflict with Washington has reopened a debate the central bank thought it had settled, and the guidance matters more to exporters than the decision itself. OTTAWA, September 1, 2026 – The Bank…
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The U.S. president used a holiday-weekend social media post to brand Canada “one of the worst abusers” on trade and urge Canadian manufacturers to relocate south, hardening positions one week before Ottawa’s dollar-for-dollar counter-tariffs take effect on September 8. OTTAWA, September 1, 2026 – Any hope that the Labour Day weekend might cool the fastest-moving…
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As retaliatory tariffs approach on September 8, a revived consumer boycott of American goods and travel is reshaping Canadian grocery aisles, snowbird plans and retail strategy, with measurable costs for United States brands By the Canada Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting TORONTO, August 31, 2026 The trade war has moved from the negotiating table to…
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Donald Trump’s threat of 50 per cent tariffs on all Canadian cars, trucks, parts and steel from January 1, 2027 puts the country’s second-largest export industry at the centre of the trade war, and Ontario’s assembly towns on notice By the Canada Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting OTTAWA, August 31, 2026 A single social media…
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With one week until Canada’s largest retaliatory tariff package in a generation takes effect, importers race to reroute supply chains, file remission requests and land goods before the September 8 deadline By the Canada Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting OTTAWA, August 31, 2026 One week from tomorrow, at one minute past midnight on September 8,…
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Statistics Canada reported 3.3 per cent annualized second-quarter growth on Friday and erased the first-quarter contraction that had fuelled recession talk. Economists told Finance Minister Champagne the same week that the new tariff round is survivable. Both statements are true, and neither describes what happens next. OTTAWA, August 29, 2026. Canada entered the sharpest phase…
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Canada will levy 25 per cent on American cheese and 50 per cent on whey, casein and milk powders from September 8, closing a loop that began with a July proclamation in Washington. The supply management fight that CUSMA was supposed to settle is back at the centre of the North American trade relationship. OTTAWA,…