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<\/p>\nLawyer explains what Canadian goods are covered by 35% U.S. tariffs<\/p>\n
Dan Kiselbach, Miller Thomson’s managing partner in Vancouver, explains what Canadian goods are covered by the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), what Canadian businesses are doing to ensure their products are covered by it, and how Canada should prepare for U.S. President Donald Trump’s expected plans to renegotiate CUSMA.<\/p>\n
While Canada and Mexico are partners in the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), they haven’t collaborated together as much as with their shared neighbour.<\/p>\n
And the two countries haven’t always been in harmony during previous trade negotiations,\u00a0at times prioritizing their relationship with the U.S.<\/p>\n
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Finance Minister Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne, left, and Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand, right, met Sheinbaum, centre, in Mexico City last week. (Claudia Sheinbaum\/X)<\/p>\n
“With Mexico, we are neighbours but we could get to know each other better,” Champagne told reporters during last week’s visit.<\/p>\n
Anand said the two countries were also looking into “port-to-port lines of trade.”<\/p>\n
On Thursday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre criticized Carney and his government for not landing a deal with either the U.S. or Mexico, saying the prime minister has shown “weakness” on the international stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Mark Carney promised that he was an international man of mystery who was going to negotiate deals and end tariffs. Well, what’s the result been so far?” Poilievre\u00a0said during a news conference.<\/p>\n
The Conservative leader also pointed to China slapping tariffs on Canadian canola as another example of the Liberals floundering when it comes to trade.<\/p>\n
“Countries smell weakness. Mark Carney has been failing,” he said.<\/p>\n
CUSMA review on the horizon<\/p>\n
Carney’s visit also comes as a CUSMA review is rapidly approaching. The trade deal \u2014 which was signed in 2018 and came into effect in 2020 \u2014 is up for review next year.<\/p>\n
While CUSMA-compliant goods are exempt from Trump’s 35 per cent tariffs, the U.S. president has hit certain Canadian\u00a0 goods \u2014 such as softwood lumber, steel, aluminum and some auto parts \u2014 with further import levies, whether they fall under the trade agreement’s umbrella or not.<\/p>\n
Although the review isn’t scheduled until July 2026, there have been questions about the possibility of it\u00a0starting\u00a0early.<\/p>\n
WATCH | What could come from the trade talks?<\/strong> What could come from trade talks between Canada and Mexico?<\/p>\n With cabinet ministers meeting with Mexico\u2019s President Claudia Sheinbaum, Power & Politics hears from Juan Carlos Baker, former CUSMA trade negotiator and Mexico\u2019s former vice minister of international trade about the relationship between the two countries.<\/p>\n Ontario Premier Doug Ford warned last week that Trump could choose to suddenly “pull the carpet out from underneath us” by opening up CUSMA as early as this fall.<\/p>\n “Let’s be prepared. I think it’ll be coming in November. He’s going to come at us with double barrels, so we better be ready and throw everything and the kitchen sink at this,” Ford told reporters last week.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755296594_957_default.jpg\")
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