Tag: Exports
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Brussels dispatches technical delegation to Beijing as an October deadline for trade rebalancing collides with a deepening standoff over subsidy probes, rare earths and a record one billion euro a day deficit BRUSSELS, Aug. 26: A team of European Union officials will travel to China in the coming days in an attempt to salvage trade…
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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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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,…
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Ottawa pulls seafood off its September 8 counter-tariff list within 24 hours of publishing it, then backfills the lost duty revenue with copper wire, charcoal and glass jars. The reversal is a case study in how retaliation lists get built, and how quickly they can break. OTTAWA, August 29, 2026. Two days after the Government…
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While the trade war with Washington dominates headlines, Canada has quietly opened a second front, imposing provisional anti-dumping and countervailing duties of up to 227.5 percent on decorative plywood from China and testing the durability of this year’s hard-won thaw with Beijing. OTTAWA, August 28, 2026 Canadian importers of Chinese plywood woke up this week…
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With less than two weeks before Canada’s new counter-tariffs on US goods take effect, importers face a compliance scramble over origin rules, remission claims and in-transit shipments, and new government guidance issued this week answers some questions while raising others. OTTAWA, August 28, 2026 Canadian importers have eleven days to prepare for the most consequential…
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Canada answers Washington’s 50 percent tariffs with dollar for dollar counter-tariffs on more than 700 American products, effective September 8, as trade negotiations remain suspended and both economies brace for a costly autumn. OTTAWA, August 28, 2026 Canada is preparing to impose the largest package of retaliatory tariffs in its modern history, with counter-tariffs of…
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Washington weighs fresh trade penalties and a January 1 jump to 50 per cent auto tariffs as Canada’s retaliation hardens, premiers split on strategy and the North American trade pact edges toward collapse OTTAWA, August 27, 2026 The Canada-United States trade war entered its most dangerous phase this week, with the White House signalling further…