Tag: Trade Negotiations
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Two days before the steepest US tariffs ever aimed at Canada take effect, businesses on both sides of the border rush shipments, rewrite contracts and brace for a Tuesday that could reshape 20 billion dollars in trade TORONTO, August 17, 2026 In warehouses along the 401 corridor, in dairies in Quebec, in wineries in the…
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Softwood lumber emerges as the hardest file in the eleventh-hour Canada-US trade talks, as Washington resists relief on duties approaching 45 percent and Canadian mills absorb another season of curtailments OTTAWA, August 17, 2026 As Canadian and American negotiators worked through the weekend to head off sweeping new 50 percent tariffs set to take effect…
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Canada and the United States enter the final 48 hours before sweeping 50 percent tariffs take effect, with negotiators mapping a package for President Trump but a wide gap still separating the two sides WASHINGTON, August 17, 2026 With less than 48 hours remaining before the United States imposes 50 percent tariffs on roughly 20…
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Ottawa has revived a proposal to cap Canadian steel and aluminum shipments to the United States in exchange for relief from Section 232 duties, a managed-trade bargain that would trade the principle of open access for the predictability producers say they can no longer find. OTTAWA, Aug. 13, 2026 Canadian negotiators have put export quotas…
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Caught between a new Section 301 forced-labour tariff already raising costs on 70 percent of its US-bound exports and a looming 100 percent penalty tied to Russian oil, New Delhi is betting that patience, diversification and an unsigned trade deal can carry it through the tightest trade squeeze it has faced in years. NEW DELHI,…
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Dominic LeBlanc’s third negotiating round in three weeks leaves Canada eight days to head off an unprecedented 50 per cent tariff on nearly US$20 billion of exports, and for the first time CUSMA compliance offers no shelter By Peacock Tariff Consulting, Canada Trade Desk OTTAWA, August 12, 2026 Canada’s minister responsible for Canada-United States trade,…
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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…
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Reported concession package would trade Canadian tariff relief on American vehicles, changes to dairy quota administration and the return of U.S. alcohol for cuts to metals duties, with nine days left on the Section 338 clock OTTAWA, Aug. 10, 2026 (Peacock Tariff Consulting) – Canadian negotiators have put a defined package of concessions in front…
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Opposition letter accuses Ottawa of eighteen months of one-way concessions and sets out a four-point test for any deal before the August 19 tariff deadline OTTAWA, August 9, 2026 – The Canadian government’s approach to the United States trade file came under direct opposition attack Sunday, as Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre released a letter to…
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Quebec declares the American alcohol boycott a matter of provincial jurisdiction alone, complicating a federal negotiation in which liquor shelves have become a tariff trigger OTTAWA, August 9, 2026 – The Quebec government has told Ottawa and Washington that American alcohol will remain off provincial liquor store shelves until the province is satisfied with the…