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U.S. Tariffs Could Price Canadian Firms Out of U.S. and Threaten Thousands of Jobs

The 50 percent tariffs President Trump imposed on Canadian exports to the United States will make it impossible for many Canadian companies to continue to sell to the U.S. market, economists say.

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Harvested logs in British Columbia in 2023. Canada’s forestry industry may be hit particularly hard by the latest American tariffs.
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Trump announces new 50% tariff on Canadian cars, trucks and steel

Move is latest deterioration in trade relations between neighbors with historically strong economic ties

Donald Trump announced a new 50% tariff on automobiles and crucial raw materials from Canada, the latest deterioration in trade relations between the two neighbors with historically strong economic ties.

The US president said that the increased tariffs would start on 1 January 2027 on all cars, trucks, automobile parts and steel. He also derided the nation’s tariffs on American farmers, writing on social media that Canada has been “ripping off” the US “for years”.

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© Photograph: Cole Burston/AFP/Getty Images

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Mark Carney says Canada can’t accept US trade deal that would weaken French language

Prime minister praised for rejecting US trade proposal as Trump shows little interest in retreating from dispute

Mark Carney said on Monday that while American negotiators saw the French language in Canada as an “irritant … in Quebec, these are rights,” days after receiving widespread praise from political leaders for rejecting a US trade proposal that many perceived as weakening the country’s Francophone culture.

The prime minister’s remarks came hours after the US president, Donald Trump, showed little interest in retreating from the spat, posting on social media that Canada had been “ripping off the United States of America for years” and threatening a swath of new, economically devastating tariffs on cars and trucks.

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© Photograph: Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press/AP

© Photograph: Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press/AP

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La guerre commerciale reprend entre le Canada et les États-Unis

Mark Carney a suspendu vendredi soir les négociations commerciales avec les États-Unis.

Il a expliqué que des modifications demandées par Washington étaient «inéquitables, non rentables et remettaient en cause la fiabilité de tout accord».

Selon Carney, les négociateurs américains voulaient: 

  • restreindre les ententes commerciales que le Canada pourrait conclure avec d’autres pays; 
  • maintenir des droits de douane trop élevés sur le secteur automobile; 
  • exempter les entreprises américaines de l’obligation d’afficher et d’étiqueter leurs produits en français.

Le premier ministre fédéral a résumé samedi: «quand vous êtes attaqués, c’est que vous êtes en guerre», avant d’affirmer: «nous avons été attaqués».

[L'article La guerre commerciale reprend entre le Canada et les États-Unis a d'abord été publié dans InfoBref.]

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Washington a finalement imposé ses droits de douane de 50%, Ottawa va riposter

Le gouvernement américain applique depuis samedi des tarifs douaniers de 50% sur de nombreux produits canadiens:

  • les produits laitiers
  • les alcools 
  • des matériaux de construction
  • d’autres produits très variés, dont des appareils électroniques, des meubles et des bâtons de hockey

Ces tarifs affecteraient 5% des exportations canadiennes aux États-Unis.

  • La proportion est de 9% pour les exportations venant du Québec.

Le gouvernement canadien a l’intention d’imposer le 8 septembre des droits de douane d’un montant total équivalent, «au dollar près», sur les exportations américaines vers le Canada.

Ces contre-tarifs viseraient notamment les produits laitiers, l’acier et les appareils électroniques. 

[L'article Washington a finalement imposé ses droits de douane de 50%, Ottawa va riposter a d'abord été publié dans InfoBref.]

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Le gouvernement Fréchette lance deux programmes pour aider les entreprises

À la suite de l’échec des négociations commerciales Canada–États-Unis, Québec a mis en place deux nouveaux programmes de soutien aux entreprises. 

PME 

Le Programme d’aide d’urgence aux petites et moyennes entreprises propose: 

  • des prêts sans intérêt pouvant atteindre 150 000 $; 
  • un moratoire sur le remboursement du capital pendant 12 mois. 

Secteur manufacturier et secteur primaire 

Le programme Fonds offensif pour le renforcement des capacités économiques propose: 

  • des prêts pouvant atteindre 50 millions $, sans intérêt la première année; 
  • un moratoire de remboursement du capital allant jusqu’à 24 mois. 

[L'article Le gouvernement Fréchette lance deux programmes pour aider les entreprises a d'abord été publié dans InfoBref.]

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Trump’s Economic Approach Draws Concern From Some Republicans

A plan to lower tariffs on imported beef and trade tensions with Canada have compounded some G.O.P. worries about a central issue in the midterms.

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President Trump arriving aboard Air Force One at Kennedy International Airport on Aug. 14.
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The lesson from Canada’s collapsed trade talks with the US: negotiation may be futile

Breakdown shows Washington now prioritises its own interests over any semblance of shared economic ground

The calamitous collapse of trade negotiations between Canada and the United States is a warning to nations worldwide that pursuing any kind of dialogue with the current US administration is doomed at the outset, according to observers who say this recent episode indicates seeking a fair deal is futile.

Andrea Lawlor, an associate professor of political science at McMaster University in Ontario, said: “No matter the closeness of the historical relationship, the American administration has signalled that it now prioritises its interests above those of some sort of global economic coordination or harmony.

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© Composite: Dylan Martinez/Reuters

© Composite: Dylan Martinez/Reuters

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U.S.-Canada Trade War: What to Know About Tariffs and the Negotiations

Canada suspended trade negotiations, triggering President Trump’s 50 percent tariffs on a range of Canadian goods. Mark Carney retaliated “dollar for dollar.”

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney addresses the trade dispute with the United States in Levis, Quebec, on Aug. 24.
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What Canadian Goods Will Take Trump’s 50% Tariffs? Some Pretty Strange Items.

Buoys, dog muzzles, capes, national flags and “base metal statuettes” from Canada are now more expensive for U.S. shoppers.

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Trump’s Top Trade Representative Details Offer That Canada Rejected

In an interview, Jamieson Greer, President Trump’s trade representative, laid out details of what the United States offered to Canada before talks crumbled.

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Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, said Canada would have been given the most preferential treatment of any trading partner.
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Carney Slams U.S.-Canada Trade Proposal and Vows Retaliation

Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a powerful speech to Canadians on Saturday morning, hours after ordering negotiators to suspend U.S. trade talks despite President Trump’s punishing tariffs.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said that he had pulled negotiators out of trade talks with the United States because the Trump administration had “asked too much and offered too little.”
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Waking Up to an Escalating Canada-U.S. Trade War

The two countries are locked in a potentially devastating tariff war after last-minute demands ended talks in Washington late Friday night.

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Dominic LeBlanc and Janice Charette at the Canadian Embassy in Washington in June.
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Carney Stands Up to Trump in U.S.-Canada Trade War

Canada’s prime minister walked away from what he thought was a bad trade deal with the United States. Many Canadians are behind him, but it will be costly.

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Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, said on Saturday that “Canada is becoming stronger and less dependent on America.”
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Canada-U.S. Tariff Talks Continue as Trump’s Midnight Deadline Looms

Canadian negotiators were in Washington to finalize a deal that would stave off new tariffs and improve the terms of existing ones, but Mark Carney faces a tough sell back home.

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The ArcelorMittal Dofasco steel plant in Hamilton, Ontario. President Trump hit the Canadian steel industry with tariffs of up to 50 percent last year.
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Canada-U.S. Trade War Escalates as Talks Collapse

Intense negotiations to stave off new levies by the Trump administration ended in an impasse as Mark Carney suspended talks. U.S. tariffs on Canada, and retaliatory tariffs on the U.S., will come into effect.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said he suspended the trade talks because the American side introduced last-minute terms that ”called into question the reliability of any deal.”
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Canada-U.S. Tariff Talks Continue as Trump’s Midnight Deadline Looms

Canadian negotiators were in Washington to finalize a deal that would stave off new tariffs and improve the terms of existing ones, but Mark Carney faces a tough sell back home.

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The ArcelorMittal Dofasco steel plant in Hamilton, Ontario. President Trump hit the Canadian steel industry with tariffs of up to 50 percent last year.
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JD Vance reportedly mocks Carney for trying to ‘out-tough’ Trump on trade

Audio recording of US vice-president apparently made at New York fundraiser and shared with Canadian Press

Leaked audio from a private event has reportedly captured the US vice-president, JD Vance, mocking Canada for apparently capitulating in a trade deal and taunting the prime minister, Mark Carney, for trying to “out-tough” Donald Trump.

The recording, which was reportedly made at a fundraiser and shared with the Canadian Press, comes in the last stretch of a difficult negotiation in which the US president has threatened to impose 50% tariffs on Canada.

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© Photograph: Bonnie Cash/UPI/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Bonnie Cash/UPI/Shutterstock

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Trump Tariff Talks Leave Key Canadian Official Hopeful

While President Trump has declared that the two countries effectively have a deal, a Canadian trade official said progress continued ahead of the Saturday deadline.

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Dominic LeBlanc, the Canadian minister in charge of U.S. trade, arriving to meet with Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, on Thursday in Washington.
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Que sait-on sur le futur accord commercial Canada–États-Unis? 

À la suite du report de l’instauration de nouveaux droits de douane américains, le gouvernement fédéral a confirmé hier qu’il finalisait un accord avec Washington.  

Mark Carney s’est toutefois contenté d’évoquer des «progrès substantiels», en soulignant qu’«il reste encore du travail important à accomplir».

Aucun des deux gouvernements n’a dévoilé le contenu de l’accord qui serait en cours de finalisation. Seules indications:

  • Dominic LeBlanc, ministre responsable du commerce Canada–États-Unis, a indiqué que le système de gestion de l’offre resterait intact.
  • Tim Houston, premier ministre de la Nouvelle-Écosse, a dit que Carney avait demandé aux provinces de remettre en vente l’alcool américain.

[L'article Que sait-on sur le futur accord commercial Canada–États-Unis?  a d'abord été publié dans InfoBref.]

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Trump and Canada’s Carney Seem to Make Progress on a Tariff Deal, but Questions Linger

After a deadline extension, the latest U.S. tariff threats seemed headed toward resolution on Wednesday, but questions lingered about what Canada would give up, and what it would get in exchange.

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Vehicles parked outside of a General Motors assembly plant on Wednesday in Oshawa, Ontario.
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Trump hits pause on Canada tariffs threat, and hints at revival of Keystone XL oil pipeline project

US president delays 50% tariffs by three days, and says contentious oil project ‘may be awoken from the grave’

Canada has temporarily avoided a bruising 50% US tariff, reaching a Tuesday-evening agreement with Trump administration officials hours before a hike that would have affected $20bn worth of goods was set to take effect.

Donald Trump posted late on Tuesday on social media that he had paused the tariffs for three days “based on the fact that Canada and the USA, subject to the finalization of documents, have a DEAL!”

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© Photograph: Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press/AP

© Photograph: Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press/AP

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Trump Pauses 50 Percent Tariffs on Canada and Claims Deal Is Near

Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada was less definitive about what the intense talks produced, saying “important work” remained.

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Trucks passing over the Peace Bridge between Canada and the United States on Tuesday.
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Donald Trump a annoncé une entente de principe avec le Canada sur les tarifs douaniers

Dans une publication sociale en fin de soirée mardi, le président américain a indiqué qu’il reportait de trois jours l’instauration de nouveaux droits de douane américains sur de nombreux produits canadiens.

Ces tarifs douaniers, de 50%, avaient été annoncés le mois dernier et devaient entrer en vigueur aujourd’hui.

D’intenses négociations commerciales entre le Canada et les États-Unis ont eu lieu ces derniers jours.

Trump a justifié le report de l’entrée en vigueur par le fait que les deux pays seraient parvenus à une entente, qui resterait cependant à finaliser par écrit.

[L'article Donald Trump a annoncé une entente de principe avec le Canada sur les tarifs douaniers a d'abord été publié dans InfoBref.]

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Carney and Trump Talk Again as Deadline Nears on New U.S. Tariffs

Canada is seeking a deal to dodge further economic pain at the hands of the Trump administration on midnight Tuesday. But at what cost?

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The Gordie Howe International Bridge, connecting Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, on the day after it opened last month. President Trump had threatened to block the bridge’s opening.
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Les 100 meilleures universités au monde comptent une québécoise 

Dans l’édition 2026 du classement de Shanghai, un classement mondial des 1000 meilleures institutions universitaires établi par une université chinoise réputée, le Canada compte 30 établissements, dont 6 au Québec.

Le classement est fondé sur des critères principalement liés à la recherche: distinctions scientifiques, chercheurs les plus cités, publications dans des revues scientifiques.

Les trois universités canadiennes les mieux classées:

  • Université de Toronto (24e
  • Université de la Colombie-Britannique (54e
  • Université McGill, à Montréal (73e)

Les universités américaines occupent la tête du classement: 

  • Harvard (1re
  • Stanford (2e)
  • Institut de technologie du Massachusetts – MIT (3e

[L'article Les 100 meilleures universités au monde comptent une québécoise  a d'abord été publié dans InfoBref.]

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