Tag: CUSMA
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Canada’s merchandise trade surplus widened to $4.2 billion in August as shipments to the United States surged 8.1 per cent ahead of Washington’s 50 per cent Section 338 duties. Economists warn the windfall was borrowed from the months that follow. OTTAWA, Oct. 8, 2026 Canadian exporters and their American customers spent August racing the clock,…
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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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Washington’s top trade negotiator says a handful of outstanding files are “quite difficult to resolve,” and rules out a return to zero tariffs, leaving Canadian exporters staring down a January deadline on autos and steel MILWAUKEE, Oct. 3, 2026 The most senior trade official in the Trump administration has publicly lowered expectations for a near…
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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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Hours before American import bans took effect, Mark Carney opened a new economic framework with Singapore and pushed a Canada ASEAN free trade agreement that Ottawa says is more than 90 percent complete, a diversification bet worth an estimated C$2 billion in gross domestic product against a market that still takes seven of every ten…
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Carney heads to the United Nations with no meeting booked with Washington, eight days before the first outright American import bans on Canadian goods take effect OTTAWA, September 21, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney left for the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Monday with no meeting scheduled with President Donald Trump or…
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Washington’s Section 338 prohibitions on Canadian alcohol, dairy proteins, molasses and large motorcycles take effect Tuesday, converting a 50 per cent tariff wall into an outright border closure for roughly $846 million in annual trade OTTAWA, SEPTEMBER 27, 2026 At 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, September 29, a set of Canadian goods that have…
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A niche dairy ingredient has become the sharpest pressure point in the Canada-U.S. trade war, with prices up two and a half times in a year and both governments squeezing the same supply chain from opposite ends TORONTO, SEPTEMBER 27, 2026 Whey protein concentrate is not a product that usually generates headlines. It is a…
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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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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…