U.S. President Donald Trump says his big tariff announcement is coming today, March 8, 2018, even as his White House wrestles internally over the policy, numerous political allies warn him against it and the rest of the world watches warily.
A new concern about Canada's relationship with the United States is emerging in the foreground, with threats of global steel and aluminum tariffs now competing with NAFTA uncertainty as a source of economic anxiety.
Kelly Craft wants Canadians to know a few things about one of the least popular presidents an American ambassador has ever had to represent in this country.
Finance Minister Bill Morneau will introduce the federal government's next budget on Feb. 27 as the country faces persistent uncertainty around trade and competitiveness.
On a day that epitomized a suspenseful era in American trade policy, the U.S. played down a presidential threat to impose a border tax, but raised the notion of upcoming Buy American provisions, slapped duties on Canadian pipes and invited the world to witness its internal tug-of-war over economic visions.
President Donald Trump is complaining about Canadian trade practices while threatening some as−yet−undefined international tax that has revived fears he might be contemplating new American import penalties.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau subtly urged the American president on Friday, February 8, 2018, night to not tear down a decades old trade relationship in the name of "winning," cautioning against a rush to build walls between their two countries.
Ontario is about to introduce a bill allowing it to retaliate against any state that adopts Buy American provisions, then plans to start a national conversation with other provinces about measures to punish new cases of procurement protectionism.
On the last stop of his cross-country tour in Nanaimo, Justin Trudeau threatened to ditch NAFTA, kicked out three protesters, and left the venue chased by a mob shouting “Stop Kinder Morgan!”