U.S. 50% Tariffs on About $20 Billion of Canadian Goods Took Effect Aug. 22 After Talks Ended; Carney Sets Sept. 8 Retaliation
Negotiations in Washington broke off late Friday, the suspended Section 338 duties took effect at 12:01 a.m. ET Saturday, and Canada says its matching tariffs begin Sept. 8.
The Deal Both Sides Say the Other One Broke
At 12:01 a.m. Eastern on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026, U.S. Customs started charging a 50% tariff on about $20 billion a year of Canadian goods[7][14]. Wine, furniture, dairy, cement, clothing, fishing rods and hockey equipment all got more expensive to bring across the border[3][7]. The tariffs landed hours after negotiators in Washington walked away from the table late Friday night, with no deal signed[3][6].
Both governments agree the talks failed. They do not agree on why. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Canada "declined to finalize the trade deal under the terms agreed earlier this week," and blamed "new demands and walk backs of other commitments by Canada"[6][10]. Prime Minister Mark Carney told a different story: that Washington added last-minute demands touching Canada's trade deals with other countries, its auto sector, and its protections for Canadian culture and the French language[3][8][12].
Neither government has released the negotiating texts, so there's no document a reader can check either account against[baseline]. What both sides do agree on is what happens next. Carney says Canada will hit back with matching tariffs on U.S. steel, dairy, appliances, farm equipment, pulp and paper and electronics, starting Sept. 8[4][14].
A Law From 1930, Used for the First Time in 2026
The tariffs rest on Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, a law that had sat unused for 96 years until Trump invoked it in three proclamations signed July 20, 2026[2][17]. It lets a president impose duties of up to 50% on a country he finds is discriminating against U.S. commerce. Unlike some other trade tools, it doesn't require an investigation or a public hearing — the president can act by proclamation alone[17][18].
That mattered earlier this year. The Supreme Court ruled that a different law, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, doesn't give the president any power to impose tariffs at all[18][19]. The administration had been leaning on that law for months. After the ruling, it needed a statute whose text actually says "tariffs" — and Section 338 does, in its own words, authorize duties up to 50%[18].
That legal difference is also why the tariffs could be turned on and off so easily. They were originally set to start Aug. 19, then got suspended for a few days while talks continued, then took effect Aug. 22 once that pause ran out[7][16]. A proclamation-only tool works well as a pressure lever precisely because there's no process standing between the decision and the deadline.
The administration's central piece of evidence is about dairy. Under Canada's system, a set amount of foreign cheese can enter at a low tariff; anything above that quota gets taxed at rates high enough to shut out most sales. The July proclamation argues Canada gives the European Union a more generous quota under its CETA agreement than it gives the United States under the USMCA trade deal[1][2]. If that's accurate, one trading partner is getting better terms than another under a deal the U.S. signed — which is the exact kind of discrimination Section 338 was written to answer.
The Number Both Sides Can Live With, and the Ones They Can't
The scale here is real, but narrower than "50% tariffs on Canada" makes it sound. The affected goods make up roughly 5% of everything Canada sells to the United States — Al Jazeera puts the figure at 5.5%[7][14][20]. Energy, potash, critical minerals and fish, some of Canada's biggest export categories, are exempt entirely[17].
What makes this round different from past tariff fights is a technical point that industry groups on both sides of the border are treating as a big deal. The 50% duty applies even to goods that meet the USMCA's own rules for duty-free treatment — the detailed content requirements companies spent years and real money redesigning their supply chains to satisfy[17]. Trade groups are calling that "a crack in the CUSMA shield"[21]. Their argument: if following the trade agreement's rules no longer guarantees duty-free entry, the agreement stops working as something a business can actually plan around.
RBC Economics, the research arm of a major Canadian bank, forecasts that the damage is contained enough that it won't push the Bank of Canada toward cutting interest rates[20]. That's a narrow-versus-broad distinction worth sitting with. For the national economy, a 5%-of-exports hit is a manageable bruise. For the specific furniture makers, wine producers and dairy processors caught in that 5%, it's not small at all — it's their main export market getting 50% more expensive overnight.
Why Neither Side Can Just Fold
Underneath the dispute sits a harder problem: both leaders have reasons they can't simply give in. The three proclamations single out dairy, alcohol and motor vehicles — the same issues the U.S. has pushed on for years and expects to revisit when the USMCA comes up for its scheduled joint review[1][2]. Applying tariffs even to USMCA-compliant goods is also a signal, intended or not, that the agreement's protections can be revoked — which is itself a form of leverage heading into that review[17].
For Carney, the hardest item on the list is dairy supply management, the quota-and-pricing system that limits how much milk gets produced in Canada and how much foreign dairy can enter. It supports a small but politically organized group of farmers, concentrated in Quebec. Carney's Liberal Party campaigned on keeping the system off the table entirely[22]. That's why the file that looks smallest in dollar terms is politically the hardest one to move.
There's also a basic size mismatch driving how Canada is responding. The United States is Canada's dominant export market, while Canada is a much smaller slice of overall U.S. trade[20]. That asymmetry is why Carney is answering "dollar for dollar" rather than escalating further — a response sized to what Canada can sustain, aimed at U.S. political constituencies rather than at matching the total dollar value[14][20].
The Case Neither Government's Statement Fully Makes
Set side by side, the two public accounts each leave something out. Greer's version is detailed about what the U.S. offered — cuts to tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum, autos and lumber — but vague about what specifically changed in the final hours that Carney says killed the deal[6][10]. Carney's version is detailed about what he refused to give up — Canada's deals with other countries, its auto sector, cultural and language protections — but vague about which commitments the U.S. says Canada pulled back[3][8][12].
A third element has entered the story that isn't in either government's official account of the negotiation. On Aug. 23, Trump wrote on Truth Social that "Canada wants the benefits of being a State, without being one," and accused Canada of charging U.S. farmers "massive amounts of Tariffs"[13]. That remark ties the tariff fight to talk of Canada becoming the 51st state — a connection that appears nowhere in the actual proclamations, which are written narrowly around dairy, alcohol and motor vehicles[1][2][13].
Coverage split largely along those same lines. Fox Business and Breitbart led with the U.S. framing that Canada walked away from a generous offer, with Carney's objections appearing mainly as quoted accusations rather than specified demands[5][9][10]. CNN and NBC News led with Carney's account, putting his "too much, offered too little" framing in the headline and the U.S. counter-claim further down[3][8]. Al Jazeera ran the most number-forward coverage, the only outlet to lead with the precise 5.5% export-share figure, and described the situation as a "trade war" escalating between two governments rather than assigning blame to either[7][14].
What's Left Unsettled
No court has yet ruled on whether Section 338 can be used this way, and as of Aug. 24, no legal challenge had been filed against it[18]. Legal commentators, including at the libertarian-leaning Volokh Conspiracy, argue the statute was meant for open, formal trade discrimination — not for a dispute over quota terms buried inside a negotiated trade agreement[18]. The administration's counter is textual: Section 338 says "duties" and says "50 percent" directly, which is more than IEEPA's text ever said[18][19].
That leaves about two weeks before Canada's Sept. 8 retaliation deadline arrives — time in which either government could still change course[14]. Whether that happens likely depends on whether Washington and Ottawa can agree on what actually went wrong Friday night, and neither side has put that account on paper yet.
Summary
The United States began charging a 50% tariff on about $20 billion a year of Canadian goods at 12:01 a.m. Eastern on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026[7][14]. The duties hit wine, furniture, dairy, cement, clothing, fishing rods and hockey equipment, among other items[3][7]. They landed hours after negotiators in Washington broke off talks late Friday night. Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada will answer with matching tariffs on U.S. steel, dairy, appliances, farm equipment, pulp and paper, and electronics, starting Sept. 8[4][14].
A tariff is a tax the importing country charges on goods coming in. The U.S. importer pays it at the border. So a 50% rate roughly means an American buyer of a Canadian dining table now owes an extra half of its price to U.S. Customs. Buyers can pay it, squeeze the Canadian seller's price, or stop buying. The legal basis matters here. Trump used Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, which lets a president add duties of up to 50% on a country he finds discriminates against U.S. commerce[2]. No president had ever used it to impose tariffs before July 2026[2][17]. It requires no investigation and no hearing — the president acts by proclamation alone[17][18]. That is why the administration turned to it after the Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that a different law, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, does not authorize tariffs at all[18][19].
The two sides do not agree on why the talks failed. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Canada "declined to finalize the trade deal under the terms agreed earlier this week," and blamed "new demands and walk backs of other commitments by Canada"[6][10]. Greer said the package on the table included large cuts to U.S. tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum, autos and lumber[6][10]. Carney says the reverse — that the U.S. changed its terms at the last minute in ways that were "unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal," reaching into Canada's trade with third countries, its auto sector, and its cultural and French-language protections[3][8][12]. That is the core factual dispute, and no public document yet settles it: the negotiating texts have not been released by either government.
The scale is real but narrow. The affected goods are about 5% of what Canada sells to the United States, or roughly 5.5% by Al Jazeera's count[7][14][20]. Energy, potash, critical minerals and fish are exempt[17]. What makes this round different from earlier ones is that the 50% applies even to goods that qualify as duty-free under the USMCA/CUSMA trade agreement — which Canadian industry groups call "a crack in the CUSMA shield"[17][21].
The Event
Trade negotiators for the United States and Canada ended talks in Washington late on Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, without an agreement[3][6]. At 12:01 a.m. Eastern on Saturday, Aug. 22, a 50% U.S. tariff took effect on about $20 billion a year of Canadian goods, under three presidential proclamations issued July 20 using Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930[2][7]. The duties had been set for Aug. 19 and were suspended for a short period while talks continued; they took effect as scheduled once that pause expired[16]. Prime Minister Mark Carney said in remarks on Saturday that Canada will impose matching tariffs on U.S. goods beginning Sept. 8[4][14].
Undisputed Facts
- Trump issued three proclamations on July 20, 2026, imposing 50% tariffs on certain Canadian goods under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 — the first time any president has used that section to impose tariffs[2][17].
- The proclamations cover about US$20 billion of U.S. imports from Canada in both 2024 and 2025, roughly 5% of the value of all goods imported from Canada[2][20].
- The duties apply to goods whether or not they qualify for duty-free treatment under the USMCA/CUSMA; energy, potash, critical minerals, fish and goods already under separate U.S. tariffs are exempt[17].
- The tariffs took effect at 12:01 a.m. ET on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026, after an earlier Aug. 19 start date was temporarily suspended during negotiations[7][16].
- USTR Jamieson Greer said at a White House briefing that Canada "declined to finalize the trade deal under the terms agreed earlier this week"[6][10].
- Carney said on Aug. 22 that Canada will match the U.S. measures "dollar for dollar," with tariffs on U.S. steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, and electronics starting Sept. 8[4][14].
- Trump wrote on Truth Social on Aug. 23 that "Canada wants the benefits of being a State, without being one," and accused Canada of charging U.S. farmers "massive amounts of Tariffs"[13].
- The Supreme Court ruled in 2026 that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorize the president to impose tariffs; the administration then turned to older statutes, including Section 338, for the Canada and Brazil measures[18][19].
- As of Aug. 24, 2026, no lawsuit challenging the Section 338 tariffs had been filed publicly[18].
The Pressure
Strip away the moralizing and blame. What structural realities persist regardless of which narrative wins?
- Leverage before the USMCA review
- The three proclamations name dairy, alcohol and motor vehicles — the same files the U.S. has pressed for years and expects to fight over in the USMCA/CUSMA joint review[1][2]. Tariffs applied to CUSMA-compliant goods are a demonstration that the agreement's protection is revocable, which is itself a bargaining chip[17].
- A statute that survives a court
- After the Supreme Court held that IEEPA gives no tariff power, the administration needed authority whose own text says "duties" and "50 percent"[18][19]. Section 338 also requires no investigation and no hearing, so it can be turned on and off by proclamation — which is what allowed the Aug. 19 start, the suspension, and the Aug. 22 restart to function as negotiating pressure[16][17][18].
- Supply management is a domestic coalition, not a trade position
- Canada's dairy quota system supports a concentrated, politically organized farm bloc, especially in Quebec. Carney committed in the Liberal platform to keep it off the table[22]. That is why the file that looks smallest in dollar terms is the hardest to move.
- Asymmetry of exposure
- The U.S. is Canada's dominant export market; Canada is a large but far smaller share of U.S. trade. That asymmetry is why Canada's answer is matched "dollar for dollar" and narrow rather than broad — a proportional response it can sustain, aimed at U.S. political constituencies rather than at total volume[14][20].
Material realityAs of Aug. 24, 2026, a 50% duty is being collected at U.S. ports on about $20 billion a year of Canadian goods — roughly 5% of what Canada ships south — including wine, furniture, dairy, cement, clothing, fishing rods and hockey equipment[2][7][20]. Energy, potash, critical minerals and fish are exempt, which spares the largest categories of Canadian exports[17]. The duty applies even to CUSMA-compliant goods, so meeting the agreement's content rules no longer guarantees duty-free entry[17][21]. The Bank of Canada has said the damage is narrow enough that it does not expect to change interest-rate policy over it[20][23]. Canada's matching tariffs on U.S. steel, dairy, appliances, farm equipment, pulp and paper and electronics are scheduled for Sept. 8, leaving about two weeks in which either side can move[14]. No court has ruled on Section 338, and no challenge has been filed[18]. Neither government has published the negotiating texts, so the competing accounts of what changed on Friday night cannot currently be checked against a document.
Narrative as a weaponBoth governments are shaping this story hard, and both are doing it by choosing what to be specific about. The administration is specific about its offer — steel, aluminum, auto and lumber tariff cuts — and vague about the last-minute changes Carney describes; it wants you to believe Canada walked away from a generous deal. Carney is specific about the demands he refused — third-country trade terms, autos, culture, the French language — and vague about which commitments the U.S. says he pulled back; he wants you to believe Washington moved the goalposts, so refusing was the only responsible move. Both accounts can be partly true at once, and neither has released the paper that would settle it. A third framing sits underneath: Trump's "benefits of being a State, without being one" post ties the tariffs to annexation talk that appears nowhere in the proclamations, and Canadian outlets amplify it because it converts a 5%-of-exports dispute into a sovereignty story that unites Canadian opinion. Watch, too, for the scale slippage in both directions — "50% tariffs on Canada" reads as a blanket measure, but the rate covers about one twentieth of Canadian exports to the U.S., with energy exempt.
How Each Side Sees It
Each major actor’s view — how it frames things, its underlying incentive, and how it’s materially affected. Tap a side to read it.
Frames it asThe administration's case is about reciprocity, not punishment. Its strongest specific evidence is the dairy quota: Canada lets a set volume of foreign cheese in at low duty and taxes anything above that at rates high enough to block sales — and the proclamation says the volume it gives the European Union under the CETA agreement is more generous than the volume it gives the United States under USMCA[1][2]. If true, that is one trading partner being treated worse than another under a signed deal, which is exactly what Section 338 was written for. Second, officials argue they made a large, concrete offer — cuts to U.S. tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum, autos and lumber, plus what Greer called a "historic economic and national security partnership" — and that Canada pulled back commitments at the end[6][10]. On their telling, the tariff is not the goal; it is the price of walking away. Third, they say the legal ground is firmer than before: Section 338's text expressly authorizes duties up to 50%, unlike IEEPA, which the Supreme Court found gave no tariff power at all[18][19].
WhyTo win concessions the U.S. has sought for years — dairy market access, auto content rules, digital and lumber terms — before the USMCA joint review, and to prove that tariff leverage still works after losing the IEEPA case in court[2][18].
Impact on themU.S. importers pay the duty at the border, so American furniture retailers, wine sellers and sporting-goods firms face immediate cost increases[3][7]. Politically, the fight plays to farm-state constituencies angry about dairy access, but the counter-tariffs on U.S. steel, appliances and farm equipment land on the same regions[14].
Frames it asCarney's case rests on reliability. He says Canada worked in good faith all week, and that Washington changed the terms in the final hours in ways that were "unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal"[3][12]. His point is that a deal reached by moving the goalposts at midnight is not a deal that will hold — so signing it buys nothing. Second, he draws a line at sovereignty items: Canada's arrangements with other trading partners, and its protections for Canadian culture and the French language, are things he argues no country trades away in a tariff negotiation[8][12]. Carney also campaigned on keeping dairy supply management — the quota-and-price system that limits how much milk Canadian farmers produce and how much foreign dairy comes in — "off the table"[22]. Third, he calls the tariffs "a miscalculation" designed "to hurt and divide us," and answers with a deliberately narrow, matched response rather than a broad one, to hold Canadian public support without inflating Canadian consumer prices[8][14].
WhyTo protect Canadian jobs and the CUSMA framework while proving he cannot be pressured — and to keep a fractious coalition of provinces and the dairy lobby behind him[4][22].
Impact on themThe hit is concentrated, not general: about 5% of Canada's exports to the U.S., in wine, furniture, cement, clothing and dairy[7][20]. RBC Economics forecasts the broader economic damage is not large enough to push the Bank of Canada toward interest-rate cuts, because the harm is narrow and industry-specific[20]. For workers in those specific plants, though, narrow is not small.
Frames it asBusiness groups on both sides of the border make a rules argument rather than a political one. Their strongest point: these tariffs apply even to goods that meet CUSMA rules of origin — the content tests companies spent years and real money redesigning supply chains to satisfy[17]. Industry groups call that "a crack in the CUSMA shield"[21]. Their argument is that if compliance with a ratified trade agreement no longer guarantees duty-free entry, the agreement stops functioning as a planning tool, and firms will price in permanent uncertainty on both sides of the border. Trade lawyers add a second point that cuts at the process: Section 338 needs no investigation and no hearing, so affected companies had no forum to present evidence before the duty landed[17][18].
WhyPredictability. Companies can absorb a known tariff; they cannot plan around a rate that can appear by proclamation with no proceeding.
Impact on themCanadian furniture, wine, cement and apparel makers lose price competitiveness in their main export market overnight[3][7]. From Sept. 8, U.S. makers of appliances, farm equipment and electronics face the mirror image in Canada[14].
Frames it asLegal commentators — including at the libertarian-leaning Volokh Conspiracy, hosted by Reason — argue the statute is being stretched past what Congress meant[18]. Their strongest points: Section 338 sat unused since 1930, which they say reflects a shared understanding that it was aimed at open, formal discrimination like flag-based shipping rules, not at a quota schedule negotiated inside a ratified trade agreement. They also note the Supreme Court's IEEPA ruling this year signaled that tariff power belongs to Congress and that broad delegations get read narrowly[19]. The administration's answer is straightforward and worth stating: Section 338, unlike IEEPA, says "duties" and says "50 percent" in its own text[18]. That is a real textual difference, and it is why no one has yet sued.
WhyTo limit executive tariff power as a constitutional matter, largely independent of who holds the office.
Impact on themNo case has been filed as of Aug. 24, 2026[18]. If one is, importers who paid the duty could eventually seek refunds, as happened in the IEEPA litigation[18].
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The same story, as framed by outlets across the spectrum, ordered least to most biased. The bias score (1 = straight, 10 = heavily spun) is an AI assessment of that framing — click an outlet to see its track record. The tell is the word choice or omission that reveals the angle.
| Outlet | Vantage | Bias | How they frame it | The tell |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al Jazeera | Qatari state-funded | 2 | "US imposes 50 percent tariffs on $20bn in Canadian goods after talks fail" and "Canada to hit US with retaliatory tariffs as trade war escalates." | The most number-forward headline in the set, and the only one to carry the share figure (5.5% of Canadian exports) prominently. The framing tell is "trade war escalates" — an outside-observer register that treats both governments as parties to a spiral rather than assigning fault. |
| CNBC | U.S. center, business | 2 | "As U.S.-Canada trade talks collapse, Carney says retaliatory tariffs will start Sept. 8" | Close to straight: action, actor, date. "Collapse" is the one characterization, though both governments' own statements support that the talks ended without a deal. |
| CNN | U.S. center-left | 4 | "Carney says US asked 'too much, offered too little' as trade talks collapse" | Carney's characterization is the headline; Greer's specific counter-claim that Canada walked back agreed commitments appears lower in the piece. The reader meets the Canadian account first and the U.S. account as response. |
| NBC News | U.S. center-left | 4 | "Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney calls new U.S. tariffs 'a miscalculation' after trade talks collapse" | Leads on the judgment word — "miscalculation" — rather than on the checkable specifics (the rate, the $20 billion, the Sept. 8 date). It is properly attributed, but a verdict quote sits where the number could. |
| Fox Business | U.S. right | 5 | "Canada's Carney says US made last-minute 'power play' as trade talks collapse; retaliatory tariffs in place" — and separately, Trump "blasts Canada" after Carney "suspends" talks. | The verb assignment does the work: Carney "suspends" the talks and "accuses," while the U.S. position is reported as fact. Carney's charge is placed in quotation marks that read as skeptical rather than as a summary of a stated grievance. |
| The Globe and Mail | Canadian center-right | 6 | "Canada at 'war,' will retaliate after trade talks with U.S. fail" and "Canada wakes up to a trade war, and comes out fighting." | "Comes out fighting" is national-morale framing, not reporting. The war metaphor — quoted in one headline, adopted outright in the other — pushes a tariff dispute over roughly 5% of exports toward existential stakes. |
| Breitbart | U.S. right | 7 | "U.S. Official: Trade Deal's Failure Is a 'Missed Opportunity for Canada'" | The headline is an unrebutted administration quote, so the U.S. framing of who lost is the story's premise. Carney's stated reasons — third-country trade terms, autos, cultural and language protections — are not the organizing frame. |
References
- Imposing Additional Duties To Offset Canadian Discrimination Against the Commerce of the United States With Respect to Dairy — Federal Register · U.S. government primary document
- Trump administration imposes 50% tariffs on certain Canadian products in first use of Section 338 — White & Case LLP · Corporate law firm client alert; represents importer/exporter clients
- Carney says US asked 'too much, offered too little' as trade talks collapse — CNN · U.S. center-left
- Prime Minister Carney delivers remarks on Canada-U.S. trade negotiations — Prime Minister of Canada · Canadian government primary document
- Carney says US 'attacked' Canada with tariffs and promises retaliation — Washington Examiner · U.S. right
- U.S., Canada fail to reach a tariff deal, deepening trade war — CNBC · U.S. center, business press
- US imposes 50 percent tariffs on $20bn in Canadian goods after talks fail — Al Jazeera · Qatari state-funded
- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney calls new U.S. tariffs 'a miscalculation' after trade talks collapse — NBC News · U.S. center-left
- Canada's Carney says US made last-minute 'power play' as trade talks collapse; retaliatory tariffs in place — Fox Business · U.S. right
- U.S. Official: Trade Deal's Failure Is a 'Missed Opportunity for Canada' — Breitbart · U.S. right, pro-Trump
- US-Canada Trade Deal Falls Apart In Potential Blow To Auto Industry — The Daily Caller · U.S. right
- Canada sets retaliatory tariffs in response to 50% U.S. levies as trade talks fail — The Washington Post · U.S. center-left
- Trump says Canada 'wants the benefits' of being a U.S. state in his 1st comments since trade talks broke down — CBC News · Canadian public broadcaster, publicly funded
- Canada to hit US with retaliatory tariffs as trade war escalates — Al Jazeera · Qatari state-funded
- Canada to impose retaliatory tariffs across a raft of US sectors, Carney says — The Express Tribune · Pakistani private daily, partnered with the International New York Times
- Temporary Suspension of Additional Duties to Offset Canadian Discrimination Against the Commerce of the United States with Respect to Alcoholic Beverages, Dairy, and Motor Vehicles — The White House · U.S. government primary document
- US Announces 50% Tariffs on Canadian Goods: Are Your Exports Affected? — McMillan LLP · Canadian corporate law firm client alert
- Prospective Legal Challenges to Trump's Section 338 Tariffs Against Canada — Reason · U.S. libertarian; Volokh Conspiracy legal blog
- US Supreme Court Strikes Down IEEPA Tariffs — Steptoe · U.S. law firm trade practice alert
- Next chapter of U.S.-Canada trade war: What we know and don't about Section 338 tariffs — RBC Economics · Research arm of a Canadian commercial bank
- Trump's new tariffs will be 'a crack in the CUSMA shield,' industry groups warn — Global News · Canadian commercial broadcaster (Corus)
- Can Canada uphold dairy supply management while giving U.S. more access? — Global News · Canadian commercial broadcaster (Corus)