Tag: Retaliation
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Canada confirms mirror-image counter-tariffs of 15, 25, and 50 percent on more than 700 United States product categories worth C$27.6 billion, effective Sept. 8, with a C$7.5 billion support package for exposed firms WASHINGTON, Aug. 28, 2026. American exporters have ten days to prepare for the most closely targeted retaliation Canada has ever aimed at…
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Beijing reserves the right to retaliate as Washington prepares a 7.5 percent Section 301 overcapacity duty that would push second-term tariffs on Chinese goods back toward 20 percent, weeks before a Trump-Xi summit WASHINGTON, Aug. 28, 2026. The Trump administration is preparing to impose a new 7.5 percent tariff on Chinese goods as the remedy…
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Brussels and Beijing enter the final stretch before an October deadline with the electric vehicle minimum price mechanism only half built, Chinese duties still collecting on European pork, dairy and brandy, and a new fight over investigative jurisdiction poisoning the well. BRUSSELS, August 25, 2026 The most consequential number published in the China-EU trade file…
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Four federal ministers unveil the September 8 counter-tariff schedule and a support package of loans and benefits, as provinces threaten energy and mineral leverage and small business groups question whether relief reaches the firms that need it OTTAWA, August 25, 2026 Four members of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet appeared together in Ottawa on Tuesday…
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Canada readies $20 billion in dollar-for-dollar counter-tariffs on US steel, dairy and farm equipment for September 8, leaving the North American trade pact and US exporters exposed WASHINGTON, Aug. 24, 2026 By the US Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting American exporters woke up Monday to a countdown clock. Canada will impose roughly $20 billion in…
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Washington switches on 50 per cent Section 338 duties on roughly US$20 billion of Canadian goods after three days of talks collapse. Ottawa promises a matching strike on September 8, and for the first time in the CUSMA era a valid certificate of origin buys an importer nothing. OTTAWA, AUGUST 24, 2026 The United States…
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Ottawa will match Washington’s new duties dollar for dollar from September 8, targeting American steel, dairy, appliances, farm equipment, pulp and paper and electronics. Canadian importers have roughly two weeks to prepare. OTTAWA, August 23, 2026 – Prime Minister Mark Carney has given Canadian industry a date and a target list. Beginning September 8, the…
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Premiers have agreed to restock American alcohol as a good-faith gesture in the Section 338 endgame, resolving one of Washington’s three formal grievances while exposing the limits of what a government can deliver when the barrier is a consumer, not a customs officer WINNIPEG, August 21, 2026 – Canada’s premiers have agreed to return United…
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Beijing orders Chinese firms not to cooperate with Brussels over the JD.com bid for Germany’s Ceconomy, the second blocking order in four months and a direct challenge to the EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation BRUSSELS, 20 August 2026 China has forbidden its companies and citizens from assisting a European Union investigation into JD.com’s proposed acquisition of…
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Carney has asked premiers to return American alcohol to liquor store shelves and stop excluding the United States from procurement, dismantling the retaliation that Washington converted into a legal finding of discrimination CHARLOTTETOWN, August 20, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney used a virtual first ministers meeting on Wednesday to ask every province and territory to…