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Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) and other Senate Democrats are urging their Republican colleagues to take a public stand against president’s tariff agenda by voting for a resolution that would undo tariffs on Canada. The resolution is likely to come to the Senate floor on Wednesday. Introduced by Kaine, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Senate Finance Committee member Mark Warner (D-VA), the measure would end a national emergency that President Trump declared at the northern border, which he cited as justification...

Senate Democrats this week plan to force a vote on President Trump’s use of emergency powers to impose tariffs on Canada, while some of their House colleagues have introduced a resolution to repeal an almost century-old statute that they fear the president will use to impose “reciprocal” tariffs on a range of trading partners. Sens. Tim Kaine (D-VA), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Mark Warner (D-VA), who serves on the Senate Finance Committee, said in a statement on Friday that they...

Key U.S. trading partners including Mexico, Canada and the European Union are vowing to retaliate against President Trump’s newly launched auto tariffs when they take effect next week even as they ramp up negotiations with the administration ahead of an April 2 deadline, the same day the U.S. is slated to announce long-awaited “reciprocal” duties. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told Trump on March 28 “that his government will implement retaliatory tariffs to protect Canadian workers and our economy, following...

A raft of tariffs imposed or threatened by President Trump on Canada and Mexico risks undoing progress made under his first administration to strengthen North American trade relations, according to Rep. Greg Stanton (D-AZ), who says the U.S. should instead focus on leveraging that progress to counter economic threats posed by China. Stanton, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Western Hemisphere subcommittee, spoke about Trump’s tariff policies and their implications for North American trade during a webinar on Thursday...

Editor's note: This is a developing story. President Trump has signed a proclamation imposing a “permanent” 25 percent tariff on imported vehicles and parts that will take effect on April 2, part of a wave of new duties including “reciprocal” measures being targeted for that day. “What we’re going to be doing is a 25 percent tariff on all cars that are not made in the United States. . . . If you build your car in the United...

The European Union and Canada are pressing the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to reconsider proposed port fees and other measures the agency believes are needed to counter China’s dominance in the shipbuilding sector, warning of potential disruptions to trade. The EU’s Delegation to the U.S. and the Canadian embassy this week told the agency in written comments that the measures, proposed as part of USTR’s Section 301 investigation into Chinese practices in the shipbuilding sector, could have significant...

New U.S. tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods, including agricultural products, are “blatant” violations of World Trade Organization rules that will exacerbate food insecurity and raise food costs in the region, Canada argued this week in Geneva -- taking its frustrations with the U.S. measures to a new WTO venue. Canada has challenged the 25 percent duties imposed by the Trump administration -- which apply to all goods except energy products and those coming in under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement --...

The European Union is moving to join Canada’s World Trade Organization challenge to U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs, arguing the bloc has a “substantial trade interest” in the issue. Canada last week requested consultations with the U.S. on the Trump administration’s 25 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, imposed under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. The duties went into effect on March 12. The request is the first step in a WTO dispute. “[T]he European...

A reprieve granted earlier this month by President Trump for new tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports that enter the U.S. under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement is prompting importers of a range of goods previously traded outside the agreement at low- or zero-duty rates to assess whether their products meet USMCA rules – and if it's worth implementing new documentation protocols for that trade while U.S. policy remains in flux, analysts say. The reprieve for USMCA-traded goods followed some vacillations by...