Ottawa hits U.S. cheese with 25 per cent and milk powder, whey and casein with 50 per cent from Tuesday, turning the sector Washington most wants opened into the sector Canada has now closed hardest. By the Canada Trade Desk | Peacock Tariff Consulting OTTAWA, September 7, 2026 – Of all the sectors on Canada’s…
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…
Quebec’s premier convenes an emergency meeting on agriculture as Canada’s supply-managed dairy sector, along with thousands of small exporters from hockey stick makers to cabinet shops, braces for Wednesday’s 50 percent American tariff MONTREAL, August 16, 2026 The anxiety radiating through Canada’s farm belt and factory floors this weekend is most acute in Quebec, where…
A 50 per cent tariff on roughly 52 Canadian dairy classifications takes effect August 19 over how Ottawa hands out quota licences, turning an obscure administrative dispute into the most consequential test yet of Canadian supply management By Peacock Tariff Consulting, Canada Trade Desk OTTAWA, August 12, 2026 Of the three American tariff proclamations set…
Canadian producers tell Ottawa that supply management is not currency as Washington talks accelerate toward an August 19 tariff wall OTTAWA, August 9, 2026 – Canada’s dairy producers have drawn the sharpest public line yet against the federal government’s negotiating strategy with the United States, warning that any further loosening of the supply management system…
Ottawa’s three part concession package on alcohol, dairy quota allocation and auto counter tariffs runs into a constitutional wall as Ontario attaches conditions and British Columbia refuses outright OTTAWA, August 8, 2026. The Canadian government has put a full concession package on the table in Washington in an effort to head off 50 per cent…
Trump’s 50 percent tariffs land Canadian milk, whey and lactose on Washington’s hit list and reopen a decades-old fight over supply management, but Ottawa says the market will not open further COATICOOK, Quebec, July 24, 2026 On a dairy farm ten kilometres from the American border, Angus MacKinnon has been expecting this fight for a…
Milk, whey and lactose join Washington’s 50 percent tariff list as Trump takes aim at Canada’s supply management system. Producers say the farmgate hit is limited, but the fight over a system Ottawa calls non-negotiable is only beginning. Peacock Tariff Consulting, Canada Trade Desk. Dateline Coaticook, Quebec, July 23, 2026. COATICOOK, Que. Canada’s dairy sector…
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…
An analysis of the benefits and costs of the agreement entering annual review, written from the perspective of Canada’s agriculture and agri-food portfolio – July 1, 2026 Executive Summary On July 1, 2026 – the sixth anniversary of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement’s entry into force – the mandated joint review under Article 34.7 concluded without…