Tag: Trade Negotiations
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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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Washington readies a 7.5 percent Section 301 overcapacity duty on Chinese goods that would lift second-term replacement tariffs to the exact 20 percent ceiling Beijing says it was promised, one month before a White House summit WASHINGTON, Aug. 26, 2026 The Trump administration is preparing to impose a new 7.5 percent tariff on Chinese goods…
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The White House moves toward a 7.5 percent Section 301 overcapacity tariff that would lift total new duties on Chinese goods to the 20 percent truce ceiling just weeks before the planned Xi-Trump summit in Washington WASHINGTON, Aug. 27, 2026 – The Trump administration is moving toward imposing a new 7.5 percent tariff on imports…
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China and Switzerland conclude an upgraded free trade agreement scrapping tariffs on 99.8 percent of Swiss exports, a pact analysts read as Beijing’s pointed signal to a wary European Union BERN, Aug. 26: China and Switzerland have concluded negotiations to upgrade their twelve-year-old free trade agreement, a deal that will eventually eliminate tariffs on 99.8…
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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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Donald Trump’s threat of 50 per cent tariffs on all Canadian cars, trucks, parts and steel from January 1, 2027 puts the country’s second-largest export industry at the centre of the trade war, and Ontario’s assembly towns on notice By the Canada Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting OTTAWA, August 31, 2026 A single social media…
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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…