Category: Trade
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Read more: Trump trade rep says Washington ‘not going to tolerate’ retaliation as tariff deadline loomsDarren Major · CBC News · Aug 14, 2026 Carney, Trump expected to to be given ‘options’ on a potential path forward on tariffs Donald Trump’s trade envoy says the administration will not accept any form of retaliation from Canada if…
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Read more: To dance and deal with the Donald: Why the long game wins the trade war
A good piece from a former Canadian trade negotiator…
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Read more: Canada, U.S. trade officials mapping out potential deal to pitch to Trump next week: sourcesFaced with the latest deadline for the imposition of U.S. tariffs, it would appear that Canadian and U.S. negotiators have been getting down to some business. Canada, U.S. trade officials mapping out potential deal to pitch to…
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Read more: Trump Wanted to Punish Canada. American Workers Paid the PriceThe tariff war has cost US border towns thousands of jobs, and the damage will be hard to undo by Philip Luck, Aug. 10, 2026 On July 20, 2026, the Trump administration escalated what has become an eighteen-month…
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Read more: More on that bridge…Some Canadian commentators have reacted poorly to the announcement that there has been a new deal reached with the U.S. that will now allow the Gordie Howe bridge to open with some claiming that it was an…
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Read more: U.S. Ambassador keeps talking tradeU.S. Ambassador to Canada blames Canada for lack of progress related to renegotiation of CUSMA… He also tries to reframe the Gordie Howe Bridge impasse… Hoekstra says no ‘significant progress’ in 14 months of trade negotiations, but…
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Read more: US won’t renew USMCA trade pact as Greer targets Canada’s China tiesIgor Patrick in Washington 2 Jul 2026 Beijing not named in official notice, but US trade chief blames Canada’s courtship of Chinese investment as major obstacle to new agreement The United States confirmed on Wednesday it would not renew its…
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Read more: CUSMA ReviewCanada and the United States statements following today’s trilateral meeting of the Free Trade Commission of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement. Ambassador Greer Issues Statement on the USMCA Joint Review July 01, 2026 WASHINGTON – The Agreement between the United…
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Read more: U.S. ambassador pitches Trump’s CUSMA threats as opportunity to ‘make us an offer’Ambassador Hoekstra is back at it. Trying to explain away President Trump’s latest… “we don’t need anything from Canada” line from yesterday. It is obviously getting more difficult to do, because Hoekstra increasingly has to rely on…
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Read more: Method to the madness…President Trump’s chaotic trade agenda with Canada, and other countries, is usually seen as being all about using tariffs as a lever with bilateral partners to relocate production to the U.S. and to leverage policy decisions that…