Just after midnight in Washington, the next round of U.S. trade measures kicks in, with the Trump administration poised to block Canadian shipments of motorcycles, alcoholic drinks and whey products. It is another turn of the screw between two close partners whose factories and suppliers are tightly linked across the world's longest border.
The import blocks are in response to Canada's retaliatory tariffs that began on Sept. 8. Those duties from Prime Minister Mark Carney's government answered the Section 338 tariffs the U.S. imposed on Aug. 22 after negotiations between the two sides collapsed.
The specific bans cover a relatively small slice of commerce, around $1 billion by Bank of Nova Scotia's economics team's estimate earlier this month. Big picture, the two countries traded nearly $900 billion in goods and services in 2025, and their production lines often cross the border multiple times before a product reaches a customer.
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On Monday, President Donald Trump predicted that within three to four weeks, Canadian officials will cut tariffs on U.S. goods and say they are "sorry". Carney and his cabinet ministers pushed back, insisting they will not be rushed into a bad deal, and in recent months they have moved to expand Canada's trade ties in Europe and Asia.
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