Two Democrats and two Republicans in the Senate asked the administration to press Canada on changing how it administers tariff rate quotas for U.S. dairy exports as it approaches a renegotiation.
Nicholas Lamp, academic director of international law programs at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, told an audience of lawyers at Georgetown Law School that he questioned the premise of the panel he was speaking on -- that Canada and Mexico's approaches to trade with China would influence the future of USMCA.
As the dust settles on the Trump administration's expansion of Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, industry and consumer advocacy groups responded with either glowing support or dour predictions of economic ruin.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
Two Section 232 investigations launched March 10 by the Commerce Department -- one on copper, the other on lumber -- serve as harbingers of potentially more trade activity to come, attorneys with the law firm Pillsbury said during a webinar on "DC Disrupted: Upcoming Tariffs & Trade Actions," said after notices seeking comments on the investigations had been posted.
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Republicans voted in the House to say that there will be no more calendar days in the rest of this session of Congress, through the end of 2026, in a procedural gambit directly blocking the ability of critics of President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canada and Mexico to challenge that policy.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the tariffs that the president threatened over Canadian trade policies for dairy and lumber won't come this week, as the president had said two days earlier.
Canadians and New Englanders, brought together by the New England-Canada Business Council, expressed bewilderment at the trade war directed at Canada, but said that President Donald Trump's actions will not be easily overcome as the two countries start to talk about how to change the NAFTA successor agreement in its sunset review.
CBP has provided guidance on tariff updates related to executive orders that set an exemption for goods from Canada and Mexico that qualify for USMCA..