Tag: Trade War
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Carney rules out energy export curbs as a retaliation tool, narrowing Ottawa’s counter-tariff options with three weeks left before Washington’s 50 per cent Section 338 duties hit roughly $20 billion in Canadian goods RED DEER, Alta., July 30, 2026 – Prime Minister Mark Carney has taken Canada’s single largest source of economic leverage over the…
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Beijing says Washington promised to cap replacement tariffs on Chinese goods at 20 percent, then told US negotiators of its serious concern over a week of new restrictions, as both sides maneuver ahead of a possible September summit WASHINGTON, July 30, 2026 – China’s top economic official told his American counterparts on Thursday that Beijing…
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Unifor calls the moment “the fight of our lives” as U.S. tariffs, a stalled CUSMA and Chinese electric vehicles converge on a Canadian auto sector already down thousands of jobs. WINDSOR, Ont., July 27, 2026. Canada’s auto sector has become the sharpest edge of the country’s trade conflict with the United States, and the union…
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Ottawa holds its fire as Washington revives a nearly century-old trade statute, setting an August 19 deadline for a 50 per cent tariff on close to C$28 billion in Canadian exports. OTTAWA, July 27, 2026. Prime Minister Mark Carney is refusing to fire back at the United States before a threatened 50 per cent tariff…
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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…
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Carney and the premiers project a united front as Washington’s 50 percent tariffs bear down on an August 19 deadline, with retaliation deliberately held in reserve CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island, July 24, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney emerged from a four-hour meeting with Canada’s premiers on the shores of Prince Edward Island this week with…
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With a 50 percent tariff cliff four weeks away and a fresh forced-labour duty already in force, Prime Minister Mark Carney emerges from a united First Ministers meeting in Charlottetown refusing to rule out retaliation while betting that intensified negotiation, not counterpunches, offers Canada its best path. CHARLOTTETOWN, July 25, 2026. Prime Minister Mark Carney…
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Washington reaches back nearly a century to a dormant Depression-era statute, placing punitive 50 percent duties on roughly 20 billion dollars of Canadian exports, from wine to cement to plywood, with an August 19 effective date and no shelter for goods that qualify under the continental trade pact. OTTAWA, July 25, 2026. The United States…
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Washington revives a Depression-era statute to hit roughly US$20 billion in Canadian exports, reaching past CUSMA protections. Ottawa calls the move unjustified and vows to keep every option open ahead of an August 19 deadline. Peacock Tariff Consulting, Canada Trade Desk. Dateline Ottawa, July 23, 2026. OTTAWA. The United States opened the broadest front yet…
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Washington revives a dormant 1930 statute to place 50 percent duties on roughly US$20 billion of Canadian goods, from wine to hockey sticks, in the sharpest escalation of the cross-border trade war this year. WASHINGTON, July 22, 2026 President Donald Trump has reached back nearly a century into American trade law to strike one of…