Tag: Section 232


  • Smoke Tariff

    Trump moves to fold the cost of Canadian wildfire smoke into Ottawa’s tariff bill as haze blankets an estimated 100 million Americans, drawing sharp rebukes from Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford. OTTAWA, July 19, 2026. Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford pushed back forcefully this weekend against a…

  • CUSMA Limbo

    With Washington refusing to extend the continental trade pact and a fresh tariff threat landing over wildfire smoke, Canada’s push to lift sectoral duties looks set to drag past the U.S. midterms. Canada’s campaign to win relief from a thicket of American tariffs entered a more uncertain phase this weekend, as a fresh threat from…

  • Smoke Tariffs

    President Trump vows to fold the cost of Canadian wildfire pollution into existing U.S. duties, opening a strange new front in a trade fight already barrelling toward an August 1 deadline. A cross-border grievance becomes a tariff threat U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to increase tariffs on Canadian goods over wildfire smoke drifting south…

  • 35% On Canada

    Trump order lifts duties on non-CUSMA goods to 35 per cent; Carney freezes Windsor to Detroit bridge tolls as the loonie sinks to a two-year low OTTAWA, July 18, 2026. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday raising United States tariffs on Canadian goods to 35 per cent, an abrupt escalation that rattled…

  • Lumber Limbo

    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,…

  • Lumber Squeeze

    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,…

  • CUSMA Deadlock

    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…

  • Jet Reprieve

    Trump orders 180 days of talks instead of immediate Section 232 tariffs on commercial aircraft, jet engines, and parts, sparing a sector with a $75 billion trade surplus while keeping duties in reserve. By the US Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, July 10, 2026 President Donald Trump has stopped short of imposing new tariffs…

  • Gap Jumps 42%

    The trade deficit swells to a 14 month high of $77.6 billion in May, a stinging data point that lands 17 days before the tariff wall built to shrink it expires and as Washington races to erect its replacement By the US Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, July 8, 2026 The statistic that has…

  • Two fires last year proved extremely disruptive to the auto industry, idling roughly 40% of America’s automotive aluminum sheet supply and forcing Ford to absorb a charge of up to $2 billion When Novelis confirmed on June 10, 2026 that its Oswego, New York hot mill was running again, the announcement read like a routine…