* First posted March 4, 2025. This situation is quickly developing. We will continue to provide updates as they become available. On March 4, 2025, the United States imposed 25 per cent tariffs on imports of Canadian goods, with a 10 per cent tariff on energy and critical minerals. In response, Canada retaliated with a… Continue reading The Trade War Begins – Canada, the United States’ top…
On 4 May 2023, the Canada Border Services Agency (“CBSA”) initiated a re-investigation (CSWP2 2023 RI) to update the normal values and export prices of certain carbon steel welded pipe (“subject goods”) originating in or exported from Chinese Taipei, India, Oman, South Korea, Thailand, and the United Arab Emirates as well as the amounts of… Continue reading Carbon Steel Welded Pipe Subject to CBSA Normal Value and…
On 25 May 2022, the United States invoked the dispute settlement procedures of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) by requesting consultations concerning Canada’s dairy product tariff-rate quota (TRQ) allocation practices. Earlier this month, New Zealand challenged similar allocation practices under the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) (see Daring to Challenge Dairy: New Zealand Challenges Canada’s Implementation of… Continue reading Spilling More Milk: Canada’s Dairy Quota Allocation Practices Under Siege…
The first dispute has been initiated under the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). On 12 May 2022, New Zealand requested consultations concerning Canada’s implementation of its obligations regarding tariff rate quotas (TRQs). Rather than the high tariffs otherwise applicable to dairy imports, the TRQs provide duty-free access for specified annual quantities of the following dairy products:… Continue reading Daring to challenge Dairy: New Zealand challenges Canada’s implementation of…
As a result of the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Canada imposed additional sanctions as against Russia and Ukraine on February 24 and 28, 2022. These sanctions are enacted under the Regulations Amending the Special Economic Measures (Russia) Regulations (“Russia Regulations”) and Regulations Amending the Special Economic Measures (Ukraine) Regulations (“Ukraine Regulations”). As a result of these… Continue reading Canada Imposes Additional Sanctions Against Russia and Ukraine
On March 17, 2021, the European Union (EU) flexed its muscle by threatening to curb vaccine exports by banning them to certain countries. Canada, although not specifically targeted by the EU’s newest overture in the COVID-19 vaccine saga, could experience a spillover effect with disruptions in the vaccine supply. In the first quarter of this… Continue reading The European Union Takes a Jab at COVID-19 Vaccine Exports
Canada’s doses of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna are made in and shipped from Europe. With AstraZeneca being unable to fill Europe’s contract for its vaccine in the first three months of the year, the European Union (EU) issued its temporary Transparency and Authorization Mechanism on 29 January 2021. One of the key highlights of the… Continue reading A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed – European…
As anticipated, Canada issued on August 13th a Notice of intent to impose countermeasures against the United States in response to the Section 232 tariffs that the U.S. administration imposed on Canadian articles of non-alloyed, unwrought aluminum on August 6th. Canada intends to impose 10 percent surtaxes on imports of aluminum and aluminum-containing products from the U.S.,… Continue reading What goes around comes around… Canada Issues List of Proposed…
While the full extent to which COVID-19 will affect global supply chains on which Canadian industries rely remains unknown, material disruptions are inevitable. In the near term, it is expected that the cost of supplies from outside Canada will increase. Limited transportation capacity, expedited freight costs, payment premiums to “buy up” the supply chain and… Continue reading COVID-19 and Supply Chain Disruption
On 4 March 2020, the European Commission published a draft regulation prohibiting certain substances obtained from aloe plants from being used as ingredients in food products and supplements. Specifically, the draft regulation proposes that hydroxyanthracene derivatives including aloe-emodin and emodin, a structurally-related substance called danthron, and aloe extracts that contain these substances should be added to the list of… Continue reading European Union Set to Ban the Use of Aloe Extracts…
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