{"id":178019,"date":"2026-08-22T05:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T05:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/178019\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T05:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T05:26:11","slug":"us-slaps-50-tariffs-on-us20-billion-of-canadian-goods-after-trade-talks-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/178019\/","title":{"rendered":"US slaps 50% tariffs on US$20 billion of Canadian goods after trade talks fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The United States imposed 50 per cent tariffs on US$20 billion worth of Canadian products early on Saturday and Canada immediately said it would retaliate, after last-ditch negotiations failed to resolve the latest strain in already tense relations between the historic allies.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US President Donald Trump\u2019s import taxes will hit about 5 per cent of what Canada ships to the United States every year, including products ranging from hockey sticks to tongue depressors.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cCanada will match those tariffs dollar for dollar to protect our workers and businesses,\u201d Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a statement. The retaliation escalates the trade conflict and calls into question the future of a North American trade pact between the US, Canada and Mexico that is crucial to industry in all three countries.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Canada sought concessions on Trump tariffs on steel, aluminium, vehicles and timber that the US was unwilling to provide, a senior Trump administration official told reporters.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A container ship is loaded while docked at the Port of Montreal in Quebec, Canada. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/010e302d-ab75-46f5-af21-a2d162c9e6e5_ac707f82.jpg\" title=\"A container ship is loaded while docked at the Port of Montreal in Quebec, Canada. Photo: Reuters\"\/>A container ship is loaded while docked at the Port of Montreal in Quebec, Canada. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cTonight, Canada declined to finalise the trade deal under the terms agreed earlier this week. Despite the US offer to Canada to receive the best treatment of any major exporter to our market, new demands and walk-backs of other commitments by Canada have upended the careful balance reached in the past days,\u201d US trade representative Jamieson Greer said in a statement read to reporters on a press call shortly before midnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States imposed 50 per cent tariffs on US$20 billion worth of Canadian products early on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5852,17,351,162,7492,111,16431,400,5150,55248,30],"class_list":["post-178019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-afghanistan","tag-canada","tag-canadian","tag-donald-trump","tag-jamieson-greer","tag-mark-carney","tag-pete-hoekstra","tag-tariffs","tag-trade-deal","tag-u-s-trade-representative","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}