Canada’s softwood producers brace for a summer duty ruling as a fresh British Columbia mill closure lays bare the human cost of a tariff wall that has climbed past 45 per cent, even as CUSMA drifts and Ottawa’s former chief negotiator warns relief may not arrive before the U.S. midterms. PRINCE GEORGE, B.C., July 17,…
Washington proposes an 8.26 percent anti-dumping tariff on most fresh Canadian mushrooms, layering a second U.S. trade remedy in two months onto a sector that sends almost everything it grows across a single border. By the Canada Trade Desk | OTTAWA, July 15, 2026 The United States moved on Tuesday to place a new layer…
Quebec rolls out a fresh loan program for softwood producers as Canadian mills brace for a U.S. duty ruling due within weeks, the Section 232 tariff bites, and Ottawa presses Washington for a truce that may hinge on quotas. By the Peacock Tariff Consulting Canada Trade Desk | Filed July 14, 2026 OTTAWA, July 14,…
Ottawa regroups as U.S. sectoral tariffs on steel, aluminum, autos and lumber stay put, a proposed forced-labour levy looms, and Beijing opens a fresh front on Canadian farm goods OTTAWA, July 13, 2026. Canada opened the second week of July with its trade file frozen in place. Almost two weeks after Washington formally declined to…
Ottawa tells Washington there is “no basis” for a proposed 10 percent forced labour duty as more than 1,500 submissions pile up ahead of a three-day Section 301 hearing. By the Peacock Tariff Consulting Canada Trade Desk | Filed July 10, 2026 OTTAWA, July 10, 2026. The Canadian government has told the Trump administration there…
Forced labour tariff hearings close in Washington today, and Canada now waits to learn whether its case spares exporters a new 10 per cent duty WASHINGTON, July 9, 2026 Three days of public hearings on the most consequential American tariff proposal of the year wrap up in Washington today, and when the final witness steps…
Ottawa tells Washington there is no basis for proposed Section 301 forced labour duties on Canadian goods as public hearings open and a late July deadline looms over exporters on both sides of the border Peacock Tariff Consulting Trade Desk WASHINGTON, July 8, 2026 The Canadian government has told the Trump administration there is no…
Washington opens public hearings today on a proposed Section 301 forced labour tariff that would add a 10 percent duty to Canadian exports, as Ottawa races to prove its border enforcement has teeth OTTAWA, July 7, 2026 The price of Canada’s access to the American market goes under the microscope in Washington this morning, as…
What an open-ended joint review means for North American supply chains – and what importers should be doing now On June 10, 2026, speaking from the Oval Office, President Donald Trump said the United States is “not looking to renew” the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), the trilateral pact that replaced NAFTA in 2020 and that…
Ottawa presses Washington for structure and predictability as North America’s trade pact slides into an unprecedented decade of annual reviews, leaving tariff relief for steel, aluminum, autos and lumber to a parallel bilateral track Peacock Tariff Consulting Trade Desk OTTAWA, July 5, 2026 Four days after the United States formally refused to renew the Canada-United…