Tag: CUSMA
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Carney and the premiers project a united front as Washington’s 50 percent tariffs bear down on an August 19 deadline, with retaliation deliberately held in reserve CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island, July 24, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney emerged from a four-hour meeting with Canada’s premiers on the shores of Prince Edward Island this week with…
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With a 50 percent tariff cliff four weeks away and a fresh forced-labour duty already in force, Prime Minister Mark Carney emerges from a united First Ministers meeting in Charlottetown refusing to rule out retaliation while betting that intensified negotiation, not counterpunches, offers Canada its best path. CHARLOTTETOWN, July 25, 2026. Prime Minister Mark Carney…
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Washington converts a stalled Section 301 forced-labour probe into hard tariffs on 60 economies, hitting Canada with a 10 percent charge that Ottawa disputes even as continental-compliant goods are spared and a broader 50 percent threat looms behind it. OTTAWA, July 25, 2026. The United States has turned a long-running forced-labour investigation into a fresh…
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Washington reaches back nearly a century to a dormant Depression-era statute, placing punitive 50 percent duties on roughly 20 billion dollars of Canadian exports, from wine to cement to plywood, with an August 19 effective date and no shelter for goods that qualify under the continental trade pact. OTTAWA, July 25, 2026. The United States…
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Milk, whey and lactose join Washington’s 50 percent tariff list as Trump takes aim at Canada’s supply management system. Producers say the farmgate hit is limited, but the fight over a system Ottawa calls non-negotiable is only beginning. Peacock Tariff Consulting, Canada Trade Desk. Dateline Coaticook, Quebec, July 23, 2026. COATICOOK, Que. Canada’s dairy sector…
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Washington revives a Depression-era statute to hit roughly US$20 billion in Canadian exports, reaching past CUSMA protections. Ottawa calls the move unjustified and vows to keep every option open ahead of an August 19 deadline. Peacock Tariff Consulting, Canada Trade Desk. Dateline Ottawa, July 23, 2026. OTTAWA. The United States opened the broadest front yet…
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Ottawa calls Trump’s new 50 percent duties a breach of the continental trade pact but holds its fire on retaliation, even as premiers press for a dollar-for-dollar response. OTTAWA, July 22, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney has condemned President Donald Trump’s newly announced 50 percent tariffs as the latest in a series of unilateral American…
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Washington revives a dormant 1930 statute to place 50 percent duties on roughly US$20 billion of Canadian goods, from wine to hockey sticks, in the sharpest escalation of the cross-border trade war this year. WASHINGTON, July 22, 2026 President Donald Trump has reached back nearly a century into American trade law to strike one of…
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From Niagara wineries to Quebec cement plants and the hockey equipment lines of small-town Ontario, Canadian industry begins a 30-day sprint to outrun a 50 percent American tariff, while importers and brokers scramble to reprice the border TORONTO, July 21, 2026 The phone calls started before the proclamations were even posted. Within hours of the…
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Faced with a 50 percent American tariff wall, Prime Minister Mark Carney is wagering that restraint, diversification and a Thursday summit with the premiers will serve Canada better than another round of retaliation OTTAWA, July 21, 2026 When the White House announced Monday afternoon that it would impose 50 percent tariffs on some $20 billion…