Canada News Updates

Canada and its 13 provinces and territories agreed to knock down more hurdles to trading internally, as the country tries to reduce its reliance on the U.S. amid a punishing trade war.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he told Ontario's premier not to run an anti-tariff advertisement that prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to end trade talks with Canada.

Asked by reporters aboard Air Force One whether negotiations between the White House and Carney’s government would resume, Trump said: “No, but I have a very good relationship."

“We have achieved our goal, to make sure that conversation starts with the American people, and with their elected officials, and my goodness, it’s started all right,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford said.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said his country is prepared to resume trade talks “when the Americans are ready,” hours after U.S. President Donald Trump halted negotiations.

Canada is launching an antidumping investigation into truck body imports from China just as Prime Minister Mark Carney is trying to ease trade tensions with the east Asian country. 

Paccar expects to seize a bigger U.S. heavy-duty truck market share once the Section 232 import tariffs on medium- and heavy-duty trucks and parts go live Nov. 1.

GM and Stellantis will be forced to pay tariffs on some U.S.-made vehicles they import for sale in Canada, after the companies decided to reduce assembly-line work at Ontario factories.

President Donald Trump said late Oct. 23 that he was ending “all trade negotiations” with Canada because of a television ad in that country opposing U.S. tariffs.

Prime Minister Mark Carney in an evening address to Canadians said the long process of an ever-closer economic relationship between the Canadian and U.S. economies is now over.