Inside Trade

March 28, 2025

Trump threatens new tariffs on Canada, including 250 percent duty on dairy

By Margaret Spiegelman  / March 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
President Trump on Friday said he plans to impose new tariffs on Canada, including steep duties on Canadian dairy, in the coming hours or days. Trump took aim at Canadian dairy practices, as well as its lumber trade, in comments to reporters in the Oval Office one day after he announced a one-month pause on tariffs he’d previously promised to impose on many goods coming from Canada. “Canada has been ripping us off for years on tariffs for lumber and...

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