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Canada did not enact a sudden blanket ban on U.S. milk; instead, Canada operates a long-standing tariff‑rate quota (TRQ) system that allows set volumes of U.S. dairy tariff‑free while imposing very hi...
Donald Trump repeatedly promised that , but the promise was never fulfilled: , and U.S. federal funds and reallocations financed the construction instead . Reporting and fact-checking across timelines...
A sudden Canadian cutoff of electricity to the United States would cause , because U.S. power systems are large, decentralized, and equipped with backup generation and interconnections beyond Canada. ...
Canada does not currently publish a list of specific U.S. cheese “types” that are universally banned; instead, Canadian rules mainly prohibit the sale of cheeses made from unpasteurized (raw) milk unl...
Donald Trump’s use of tariffs and trade pressure on Canada is explicit: his administration has imposed broad tariffs (reported as up to 25% on many Canadian goods, with energy at 10%) and halted talks...
Canada’s supply-management system keeps steep over‑quota dairy tariffs—commonly cited around 241%–298% (e.g., 241% on fluid milk, 298% on butter)—and limits how much U.S. dairy can enter duty‑free und...
China was the single largest source of U.S. tariff revenue in 2024, driven by large import volumes and high, trade-weighted tariff rates applied to Chinese goods (sources estimating China’s share and ...
Canadian dairy policy protects domestic farmers with tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) that let limited volumes in duty-free while imposing very high over-quota Most-Favoured-Nation (MFN) duties — commonly ci...
Prime Minister Mark Carney has negotiated or launched negotiations on trade and investment agreements with the United Arab Emirates (signed a Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement and ...
Recent US‑Canada dairy disputes have produced mixed, concrete effects: USMCA expanded U.S. access to Canadian dairy markets (about 3.5% of Canada’s market), but contested Canadian administration of ta...
Canada controls U.S. milk imports through a mix of trade-managed quotas and high over‑quota tariffs, detailed import permits and tariff‑rate quotas (TRQs) under the Export and Import Permits Act, and ...
Canada is unlikely to “lose” natural gas to the United States as a direct consequence of short-term U.S. electricity shortages; existing analyses show complex cross-border energy interactions where el...
Canada has negotiated a preliminary agreement-in-principle with China that lowers tariffs on key Canadian exports (notably canola, seafood and peas) and opens Canadian markets to a capped number of Ch...
The 2025 tariff overhaul materially raised federal customs receipts in the near term and materially altered the budget baseline by shaving projected deficits, but the size and persistence of that effe...
Tariff shocks most sharply threaten U.S. dairy producers concentrated in the Midwest — notably Wisconsin — and the broader Plains/Central states where export-dependent cheesemaking and fluid milk proc...
Donald Trump’s first term produced a mix of durable policy changes and deep political disruption: significant conservative wins on the judiciary, tax and trade shifts, and diplomatic breakthroughs wer...
General Motors is not collapsing in 2026, but it is navigating a visible stress test: recurring recalls and quality issues have imposed multi-billion-dollar costs and reputational damage even as the c...
Canada’s trade posture under Prime Minister Mark Carney has been defined by rapid diversification of partners and pragmatic adjustments to existing agreements: Ottawa is actively signing memoranda and...
Federal budgets and appropriations have repeatedly included U.S. taxpayer funding for border barriers and occasional White House or congressional language promising future “reimbursement” from Mexico,...
Canada and the United States remain deeply integrated: U.S. goods imports from Canada were about US$421.2 billion in 2024 while Canadian exports to the U.S. were roughly US$419.8 billion in 2024 (COMT...