Tag: Trade Negotiations
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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…
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Negotiators have sketched a tentative arrangement cutting Section 232 steel and aluminium duties to 25 per cent and auto tariffs to 15 per cent, but derivative products, exclusions and aluminium traceability remain unresolved WASHINGTON, August 20, 2026 The most commercially significant element of the emerging Canada-United States trade arrangement is not the 50 per cent…
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Washington shelved a 50 per cent tariff on roughly US$20 billion of Canadian goods with less than two hours to spare, but no legal text has been published and the reprieve expires Saturday OTTAWA, August 20, 2026 The first tariff in nearly a century imposed under Section 338 of the United States Tariff Act of…
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Mexico presses Washington to slash Section 232 auto tariffs and rewrite content rules as the USMCA review heads toward a decisive fourth round WASHINGTON, Aug. 19, 2026 – Mexico is mounting its most aggressive push yet to dismantle the tariff wall that the United States has built around the North American auto industry, pressing the…
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Washington postpones 50 per cent Section 338 duties on roughly US$20 billion of Canadian goods until the end of day August 21 as President Trump declares a deal is done. Ottawa is more guarded, warning that “important work” remains before anything is signed. OTTAWA, August 19, 2026 Canadian exporters woke up on Wednesday to a…
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Negotiators are working toward cutting the American tariff on Canadian-built vehicles from 25 per cent to 15 per cent, but the two sides remain split on whose content gets deducted. The difference between American-only and North American content is worth billions, and Brampton is the cautionary example. OTTAWA, August 19, 2026 The headline number in…
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The United States trade representative says Canada must scrap its retaliatory measures, starting with provincial bans on American alcohol, to avoid new 50 percent tariffs, while sources say Washington is offering no meaningful relief on softwood lumber WASHINGTON, August 16, 2026 The price of peace, as Washington defines it, came into sharp focus this weekend.…
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Canadian businesses choose watchful waiting over panic shipping as the 50 percent tariff deadline approaches, betting that Washington will blink again By Peacock Tariff Consulting Trade Desk | TORONTO, August 15, 2026 With five days until the United States imposes 50 percent tariffs on nearly 20 billion United States dollars in Canadian exports, the country’s…
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Washington’s settlement offer excludes softwood lumber relief and demands the immediate return of American alcohol to provincial shelves, sources say, leaving the two sides far apart days before new tariffs bite By Peacock Tariff Consulting Trade Desk | OTTAWA, August 15, 2026 The shape of a possible Canada-United States trade deal came into focus Friday,…
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Quebec convened emergency sector meetings, Ontario refused to restock American whisky, and federal ministers briefed their provincial counterparts as a 50 per cent tariff deadline exposed the seams in Canada’s negotiating coalition. MONTREAL, Aug. 14, 2026 Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette spent Thursday in a Montreal boardroom with the province’s leading economic stakeholders, working through a…