Ottawa closed its first Canada Investment Summit with nearly $500 billion in commitments, a corporate tax deduction it says will give Canada the lowest effective rate on new business investment in the G7, and a plan to sell long term concessions on the country’s four largest airports. The pitch is a tariff strategy by another…
Commerce formally opens antidumping investigations of linear hydraulic cylinders from five countries, with alleged dumping margins reaching 744.85 percent, after an unusual industry polling exercise and warnings about an unusually aggressive scope WASHINGTON, September 15, 2026. The United States Department of Commerce has formally launched one of the broadest trade remedy actions of the year,…
Japan and South Korea head into a decisive September with dueling anti-dumping duties on each other’s steel, as both scramble to wall off markets from a flood of cheap Chinese metal. TOKYO, SEPT. 14, 2026 Northeast Asia’s quiet steel war has reached its most consequential stretch of the year. As of this week, Japanese customs…
Brussels abandons its planned 15 percent export duty on aluminium scrap after pressure linked to the India trade deal, leaving Europe’s smelters furious and forcing the bloc to reach for environmental waste rules instead. BRUSSELS, Sept. 14, 2026 The European Commission has abandoned its long-promised export duty on aluminium scrap, shelving a measure that Europe’s…
A new 50 per cent U.S. tariff on Canadian motorboats, mattresses, golf carts, aluminum bars and steel tubing takes effect Tuesday, with import bans on alcohol, whey and motorcycles two weeks behind it, as Ottawa signals no retreat Ottawa, September 14, 2026 At 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, a second wave of 50 per cent U.S. tariffs…
India’s trade remedy authority hears arguments today on whether Chinese, Indonesian and Vietnamese stainless steel imports have injured domestic mills, the latest front in a widening campaign of anti-dumping actions. NEW DELHI, September 11, 2026 A Hearing at the Center of a Widening Trade Fight India’s Directorate General of Trade Remedies convenes an oral hearing…
Applications for Ottawa’s enlarged Regional Tariff Response Initiative went live this week in the Prairies and southern Ontario, pushing the national envelope to 3.45 billion dollars as survey data puts a three-month clock on the firms it is meant to save. OTTAWA, September 11, 2026 The federal government opened the application window this week for…