{"id":178793,"date":"2026-08-22T18:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/178793\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T18:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:45:07","slug":"canadian-pm-threatens-retaliatory-tariffs-on-us-after-labor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/178793\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian PM threatens retaliatory tariffs on US after Labor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hours after the US slapped 50% tariffs on Canadian products, Prime Minster Mark Carney said Saturday that new retaliatory tariffs will take effect on Sept. 8.<\/p>\n

Speaking from Ottawa a day after threatening to impose \u201cdollar for dollar\u201d tariffs on the United States, Carney said, \u201cin the coming days, we will release the details of these new tariff measures, which will come into force the Tuesday after Labor Day.\u201d<\/p>\n

The threat comes after new 50% US tariffs on Canadian imports \u2014 including beer, cheese and electronics \u2014 went into effect at 12:01 a.m., Saturday morning, after the Trump administration slapped them on<\/a> the Great White North following the collapse of trade talks Friday night.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Mark Carney (r) blamed the US for \u201clast-minute changes\u201d and said Canada would impose \u201cdollar for dollar\u201d tariffs. The US blames Canada for making new demands. REUTERS<\/p>\n

Carney claimed the US \u201casked too much and offered to little.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot accept what they\u2019ve offered and we will not give what they\u2019ve asked,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

The US is imposing duties on $28 billion worth of Canadian imports, which are set to immediately raise costs of beer, liquor, cheese and other dairy products for Americans. The tariffs will also raise the prices Americans pay for Canadian lumber and building materials, as well as auto parts that are critical to US manufacturing.<\/p>\n

The trade war could also have an outsized impact in Michigan, whose top export market is Canada. The battleground state also features a key toss-up Senate race between Democratic socialist Abdul El-Sayed<\/a> and former Republican congressman Mike Rogers that could determine party control of the upper chamber.<\/p>\n

Canadian provinces had already yanked US liquor products from their shelves in March 2025 \u2014 after the US imposed tariffs on Canadian exports.<\/p>\n

The US is imposing 50% tariffs on $28 billion worth of Canadian goods, from beer to cheese after the collapse of trade talks Friday. REUTERS<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is unfortunate that the Canadian provinces\u2019 continued refusal to return U.S. spirits products to store shelves has led to this outcome,\u201d said Chris Swonger, president of the Distilled Spirits Council in a statement overnight.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe encourage policymakers on both sides of the border to pursue a negotiated solution that restores market access for U.S. spirits throughout Canada and returns spirits trade to a zero-for-zero tariff framework.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trump administration said it had given Canada every chance to cut a deal.<\/p>\n

The US is Canada\u2019s largest trading partner, and Canada is Michigan\u2019s largest export market. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cFor decades, Canada has enjoyed the most favorable access to the U.S. market of any country. And from the beginning of President Trump\u2019s trade program, Canada has continued to enjoy the best treatment in the world,\u201d said US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer in a statement Friday night announcing the tariffs.<\/p>\n

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Greer told Fox News Saturday that there were no further talks planned.<\/p>\n

Carney said his government would introduce \u201cadditional measures\u201d to support Canadian businesses in addition to $25 billion in support already out the door.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump\u2019s administration is using another tariff threat to put fresh pressure on Canadian provinces to end their boycotts of US alcohol, which came in response to US tariffs on Canada. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n

He said \u201clast-minute changes\u201d proposed by the US led to the breakdown, although Greer blamed Canada for \u201cnew demands and walk backs\u201d \u2014 and for failing to finalize a \u201cforward looking\u201d deal with new \u201csupply chain coordination\u201d on aerospace and critical minerals.<\/p>\n

Other Canadian exports getting hit by the new tariffs will include cement, electronic equipment, plastic flooring, wood, paper, wine \u2014 and even hockey sticks.<\/p>\n

The tariffs are a result of the US implementing Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, which allows the president to \u201cimpose duties of up to 50 percent on imports of a foreign country to offset the burden or disadvantage from a foreign country\u2019s unequal imposition on or discrimination against the commerce of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hours after the US slapped 50% tariffs on Canadian products, Prime Minster Mark Carney said Saturday that new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[761,13427,17,51496,113,400,437,28,218],"class_list":["post-178793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-alcohol","tag-beer","tag-canada","tag-cheese","tag-politics","tag-tariffs","tag-trade-war","tag-trump","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178793","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=178793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}