Tag: Trade War
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From Niagara wineries to Quebec cement plants and the hockey equipment lines of small-town Ontario, Canadian industry begins a 30-day sprint to outrun a 50 percent American tariff, while importers and brokers scramble to reprice the border TORONTO, July 21, 2026 The phone calls started before the proclamations were even posted. Within hours of the…
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Washington invokes a never-before-used 1930 trade law to hit $20 billion in Canadian goods with 50 percent duties, sweeping aside CUSMA protections and opening a volatile new front in the North American trade war WASHINGTON, July 20, 2026 President Donald Trump signed three proclamations on Monday imposing an additional 50 percent tariff on roughly $20…
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Trump moves to fold the cost of Canadian wildfire smoke into Ottawa’s tariff bill as haze blankets an estimated 100 million Americans, drawing sharp rebukes from Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford. OTTAWA, July 19, 2026. Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford pushed back forcefully this weekend against a…
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President Trump vows to fold the cost of Canadian wildfire pollution into existing U.S. duties, opening a strange new front in a trade fight already barrelling toward an August 1 deadline. A cross-border grievance becomes a tariff threat U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to increase tariffs on Canadian goods over wildfire smoke drifting south…
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Trump order lifts duties on non-CUSMA goods to 35 per cent; Carney freezes Windsor to Detroit bridge tolls as the loonie sinks to a two-year low OTTAWA, July 18, 2026. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday raising United States tariffs on Canadian goods to 35 per cent, an abrupt escalation that rattled…
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Washington’s Section 301 clock on Brazil runs out today, with a 25 percent tariff on more than 4,000 products expected within hours, a second duty stacked behind it for July 24, and a year of negotiations that one official summed up in four words: they want the impossible By the US Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff…
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Brussels warns that dialogue alone will not suffice as it readies unilateral safeguards, quotas and duties on Chinese imports ahead of an October deadline, hours after Beijing posts a record trade surplus International Trade Desk | Peacock Tariff Consulting BRUSSELS, July 14, 2026 The European Union will impose unilateral trade defense measures on Chinese imports…
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Detroit and Windsor have waited the better part of a decade for a new river crossing. In June 2026, with the ribbon already cut in everything but ceremony, the politics of a continental trade war finally caught up with the concrete. For more than seven years, the Gordie Howe International Bridge rose over the Detroit…
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In late May 2026, the Office of the United States Trade Representative quietly published a notice that, on its surface, looked like the kind of bureaucratic paperwork most people scroll past without a second thought. The headline that followed in the business press was blunt: “U.S. Hits Vietnam With Third Probe as Trade Pressure Grows.”…
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On 3 June 2026, reporting from Brussels confirmed what European industry had been bracing for through a long, anxious spring: the European Union is preparing to warn its own citizens and companies that a trade conflict with China is now the most likely path forward. After a closed-door meeting of senior Commission officials, the message…