Canadian provinces refuse to back down as US tariff talks stay stuck
Trade talks between Canada and the United States remain stalled after Washington threatened tariffs of up to 50%.
Trade talks between Canada and the United States remain stalled after Washington threatened tariffs of up to 50%.
Trade talks between the United States and Canada have stalled, and Washington is threatening tariffs of up to 50% on Canadian goods.
Washington's new tariff wall has moved the story from complaint to counter-move, with Canada threatening its 'full range' of retaliation and allies from Brussels to Canberra contesting the reasoning itself.
Trump's new tariffs of up to 12.5% on 60 countries replace levies expiring Friday, recast as a crackdown on forced-labour imports after the Supreme Court struck down his earlier measures.
President Donald Trump imposed a 50% tariff on roughly $20 billion of Canadian goods, prompting Prime Minister Mark Carney to say Canada would not 'bow down' as a new North American trade conflict opened.