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Canada-US trade
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U.S. tariffs on steel, aluminum could be gone in weeks, ambassador says
Washington, DC — A long-awaited end to Canada’s steel-and-aluminum tariff nightmare could be just weeks away, says Ottawa’s ambassador to the United States — but David MacNaughton is playing coy about the source of his newfound optimism. Along with Transport…
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A political ‘bomb’ over drug prices could threaten NAFTA 2.0
Washington, DC — The clash over free trade in North America has long been fought over familiar issues: Low-paid Mexican workers. U.S. factories that move jobs south of the border. Canada’s high taxes on imported milk and cheese. But as…
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Trump uses state of the union speech to urge Congress to approve USMCA
Washington, DC — The NAFTA-bashing president of the United States used his state of the union speech Tuesday to urge a divided, combative Congress to come together to ratify a continental trade pact he’s convinced will breathe new life into…
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Ottawa says Ontario’s call to drop retaliatory tariffs would mean ‘surrender’
Toronto, ON — Ottawa is dismissing a call from Ontario’s economic development minister to drop retaliatory tariffs against the United States, saying doing so would mean “unilateral surrender” to the Americans. The federal government applied tariffs on $16.6-billion worth of…
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Democrats, Republicans alike won’t support USMCA with tariffs in place: Brady
Washington, DC — A key member of Congress on the international trade file says Republicans and Democrats alike are telling him they won’t back President Donald Trump’s North American trade deal if punitive tariffs on steel and aluminum remain in…
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U.S. tariffs on Canada, Mexico need to come off, manufacturers plead
Washington, DC — American automakers, aluminum producers, manufacturers and farmers are running out of time, money and patience as the North American tariff standoff persists, and they’re pleading with the United States to put an end to it. Industry emissaries…
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Deputy U.S. trade czar conscripts American mayors to lobby for USMCA
Washington, DC — One of the hard-bargain drivers from the American side of the NAFTA negotiating table is bringing his powers of persuasion to bear on the next challenge facing the new North American trade pact: the U.S. Congress. Deputy…
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Nancy Pelosi, NAFTA naysayer, makes history as latest House Speaker
Washington, DC — Nancy Pelosi, a veteran Democrat brawler and vocal critic of Canada’s trade agreement with the United States and Mexico, resumed her role Thursday as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the first woman in history…
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NAFTA drama earns Chrystia Freeland CP’s Business Newsmaker of 2018
Ottawa, ON — There will be drama. Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland took pains to predict that in a lengthy August 2017 speech that spelled out Canada’s goals at the start of the North American Free Trade Agreement talks with…
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Freeland says Trump metal tariffs ‘contradict’ new NAFTA and will have to go
Ottawa, ON — Donald Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs contradict a key component of the new North American trade agreement — the pivotal section on autos — which will ultimately lead to their demise, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says.…
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Steel, aluminum tariffs impacting one third of Canadian exporters: poll
Ottawa, ON — More than one-third of Canadian exporters say they have been negatively impacted by steel and aluminum tariffs that are affecting Canada-U.S. trade, according to a survey by Export Development Canada. The Ottawa-based Crown corporation said Tuesday that…
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Take my NAFTA, please: As Pelosi riffs, questions abound on fate of USMCA
Washington, DC — North of the border, Canada’s hard-won free-trade deal with the United States and Mexico is considered a matter of existential importance, heavy with implications for workers, businesses and governments of all political stripes. For Nancy Pelosi, it’s…