Tag: Trade War
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Trump’s memorandum orders Canadian goods stripped from U.S. federal civil purchasing, opening a front in the trade war that tariffs cannot reach and negotiators may not be able to close WASHINGTON and OTTAWA, September 17, 2026. President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum on Tuesday directing his budget office and trade representative to identify and…
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With U.S. tariffs at 50 per cent and import bans two weeks away, Carney gathers investors managing US$120 trillion in Toronto to sell Canada as a rules-based alternative, landing a C$50 billion data-centre commitment on day one Toronto, September 15, 2026 | Peacock Tariff Consulting Canada Trade Desk Prime Minister Mark Carney opened the two-day…
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Trump promises $5,000 “Trump Dividends” funded partly by tariff revenue if Republicans hold Congress, reviving a rebate idea that economists and some GOP senators have panned WASHINGTON, September 10, 2026 President Donald Trump vowed Wednesday night to send a $5,000 “dividend” to every American citizen after the midterm elections, funded in part by his administration’s…
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Washington and Beijing race to cut duties on $30 billion in goods ahead of the September 24 Trump-Xi summit, but a fragile truce and a November deadline loom over the talks WASHINGTON, September 10, 2026 China and the United States are pushing to finalize reciprocal tariff reductions on roughly $30 billion of goods before President…
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Five Section 338 proclamations signed September 8 will bar Canadian alcohol, dairy and larger motorcycles from the United States as of September 29. For exporters, the shift from a payable duty to an outright import prohibition changes the problem entirely. OTTAWA, September 10, 2026 On the evening of September 8, hours after Canada’s mirrored counter-tariffs…
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A planned 7.5 percent overcapacity tariff would push US duties on Chinese goods to the very ceiling of the trade truce, just as new export data shows Beijing’s shipping machine running hotter than ever ahead of the September 24 Trump-Xi summit WASHINGTON, September 9, 2026 Two weeks before President Donald Trump is scheduled to welcome…
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Canada’s dollar-for-dollar counter-tariffs on $27.6 billion of U.S. goods take effect at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, closing the in-transit window and handing importers a 629-line compliance problem that lands before most customs desks open. By the Canada Trade Desk | Peacock Tariff Consulting OTTAWA, September 7, 2026 – Canadian importers have until midnight tonight to get…
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Canada’s dollar-for-dollar surtaxes on C$27.6 billion of American goods take effect at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, but as of Monday morning importers and brokers still had no Order in Council and no CBSA customs notice to file against OTTAWA, September 7, 2026 Canada’s largest single act of trade retaliation in the current dispute with the United…
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Washington is preparing a 7.5 percent overcapacity tariff on Chinese goods, engineered to hit the exact ceiling of the bilateral truce, weeks before Xi Jinping arrives for a September 24 summit that will decide whether the truce survives By the US Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting | August 31, 2026 WASHINGTON, August 31, 2026. The…
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Economists are unanimous that the Bank of Canada will leave its policy rate at 2.25 per cent on Wednesday, but the escalating tariff conflict with Washington has reopened a debate the central bank thought it had settled, and the guidance matters more to exporters than the decision itself. OTTAWA, September 1, 2026 – The Bank…