Enter your email address to get a new one. Canada retaliated with $16.6 billion in tariffs on U.S. products, including ketchup, ballpoint pens, licorice, orange juice, whisky and toilet paper. “I think we’re going to ponder the possibilities in the coming weeks and see what is on the one hand reasonable and on the other hand can be painful,” Simard said. "I can't confirm whether or not steel is part of what the U.S. is considering," Cobden told Radio Canada International. Your existing password has not been changed.

“It’s the wrong thing for the wrong reason at the wrong time for the wrong people,” he said. The U.S. previously imposed the same tariff between June 1, 2018, and May 17, 2019, along with a 25 per cent import tariff on Canadian steel. officials assessing risk of tsunami after 7.4-magnitude quake off Alaska, 1 in 4 Canadians say their mental health is worse than during first COVID-19 wave, Toronto releases COVID-19 data revealing where the virus could be headed, What's open and closed in Toronto this Thanksgiving weekend, Toronto top doctor says multiple weddings led to 22 COVID-19 infections, Child care key to women's recovery from economic impacts of COVID-19, report says, 680 NEWS Gets Answers: Interview with Education Minister Stephen Lecce, Bizarre dreams and bad sleep: Sleep experts say the pandemic could be a factor, COVID-19 affecting food prices, grocery shopping behaviour, 'Hamilton' a record-breaking hit before box office even opened: Mirvish. Since the 10% aluminum tariff on Canadian imports was removed last year, we have seen Prime Minister Trudeau’s government announce new subsidies for the Canadian aluminum industry, the restart of Canadian production, and skyrocketing imports of Canadian primary aluminum – by over 80% in the last year alone – despite an agreement that the Canadians would do no such thing.

“Industry groups dominated by foreign producers want the Trump Administration to believe that the problem lies only with China. Yet, some of these same entities are currently petitioning the U.S. Commerce Department to impose import duties of up to 151% against 18 other countries on downstream aluminum products these groups produce,” said Mark Duffy, Chief Executive Officer of the APAA.

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Levon Sevunts is a reporter/producer for Radio Canada International. ", Among other things, the report calls on Congress to "make big-picture, institution-level reforms to U.S. trade policy" — including the repeal of Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and Sections 201 and 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 — to "restore tax authority to the legislature and make trade policy less subject to presidential whim.".

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He said the U.S. is picking and choosing numbers to support their argument but in reality, Canadian exports to the U.S. have fallen in the last year, and there is no surge in exports or production from this side of the border.