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      "title": "The US–Canada Trade War: From the Fentanyl Tariffs to Section 338 and Dollar-for-Dollar Retaliation",
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      "role": "Canadian prime minister who negotiated with Trump, ended the August 2026 talks, and authorized Canada's renewed retaliation.",
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      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/us-canada-trade-war#n1647",
      "date": "2026-09-29",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Carney threatens legal action over Stelco employment commitments",
      "summary": "Mark Carney threatened legal action against Cleveland-Cliffs over employment obligations connected to its 2024 takeover of Stelco. The obligations were binding under the takeover approval.",
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          "quote": "Carney also threatened legal action against Cleveland-Cliffs, saying the Ohio-based company has binding employment obligations stemming from its C$3.4 billion ($2.4 billion) takeover of Stelco in 2024."
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      "date": "2026-09-17",
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      "title": "Carney proposes deeper Canada-EU integration",
      "summary": "Mark Carney said Canada welcomed the ambition for closer ties with the European Union. He proposed seamless digital trade in non-agricultural goods and services as part of a prospective alliance.",
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          "url": "https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/2026/09/17/prime-minister-carney-delivers-address-european-parliament",
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          "quote": "“Canada welcomes this ambition – polling shows an overwhelming majority of Canadians support much closer ties with Europe.”"
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          "url": "https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/2026/09/17/prime-minister-carney-delivers-address-european-parliament",
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          "quote": "“We should move toward seamless, digital trade in non-agricultural goods and a wide range of services.”"
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      "date": "2026-09-16",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Von der Leyen proposes EU associate membership for Canada",
      "summary": "European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed opening the way for Canada to become the European Union's first associate member. Mark Carney welcomed a proposal for a Canada-EU alliance beyond CETA.",
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          "quote": "“So, I would like to work with you on opening the door for Canada to be the first associate member of the EU.”"
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          "url": "https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/readouts/2026/09/16/prime-minister-carney-meets-president-european-commission-ursula-von-der",
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          "quote": "“The Prime Minister welcomed the President’s proposal for Canada and the EU to move beyond the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) to a far stronger, more ambitious alliance in the future.”"
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      ]
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      "date": "2026-09-14",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Carney welcomes Trump's comments and says Canada is ready to negotiate",
      "summary": "After Trump said a deal could come fairly soon, Carney said a mutually advantageous agreement remained possible, one respecting Canadian sovereignty and cultural institutions, and that Canada was ready to sit down and negotiate. He said he remained in regular contact with Trump and was open to re-engagement if the United States respected Canada's red lines.",
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          "outlet": "BNN Bloomberg",
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          "quote": "\"We're ready to sit down and negotiate that and move it forward.\""
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          "url": "https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/tariffs/2026/09/14/i-welcome-the-presidents-comments-pm-carney-responds-to-trump-update-on-canada-us-trade-deal/",
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          "quote": "Carney, however, said last week he remains in \"regular contact\" with Trump, signalling an openness to re-engagement if the U.S. respects red lines in the negotiations."
        }
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      "date": "2026-09-10",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Carney signals restraint on further retaliation",
      "summary": "Mark Carney said Canada might hold off on further retaliation against the latest U.S. trade measures. The federal government was studying the tariffs and import bans while considering whether to adjust retaliatory tariffs.",
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          "url": "https://www.local10.com/news/world/2026/09/10/carney-calls-trumps-latest-trade-measures-relatively-modest-signals-restraint/",
          "outlet": "Associated Press",
          "published": "2026-09-10",
          "quote": "“Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney signaled Thursday that Canada may hold off on further retaliation against U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest trade measures, calling them ‘relatively modest’ compared to earlier U.S. actions.”"
        },
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          "url": "https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/09/10/pm-carney-says-he-and-trump-have-talked-in-the-last-few-days/",
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          "published": "2026-09-10",
          "quote": "“Prime Minister Mark Carney says the federal government is still studying the United States’ latest tariffs and import bans as it considers whether to adjust its own retaliatory tariffs.”"
        }
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      "date": "2026-09-08",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Canada's counter-tariffs take effect on C$27.6 billion of American goods; Carney warns of tough times",
      "summary": "The 15 to 50 percent duties on some 700 U.S. products started at 12:01 a.m., with U.S. steel, aluminum and iron, furniture, motorcycles and clothing in the 50 percent bracket and the 25 percent auto counter-tariff still in place. In a video address Carney said there is always a cost to action but it does not come close to the cost of standing still, and that the U.S. demands had shown Washington wanted Canada more dependent, not less.",
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          "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/canada-retaliatory-tariffs-u-goods-111253721.html",
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          "published": "2026-09-08",
          "quote": "Canada imposed counter-tariffs on $27.6 billion worth of American goods on Tuesday, with duties ranging from 15% to 50% across hundreds of product categories including steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, and electronics. The measures took effect at 12:01 a.m."
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          "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/canada-retaliatory-tariffs-u-goods-111253721.html",
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          "published": "2026-09-08",
          "quote": "Steel, aluminum, and iron products from the U.S. now face a 50% Canadian tariff, and furniture, motorcycles, clothing, and certain beauty products were likewise placed in the top-rate bracket, according to CNBC. Existing Canadian counter-tariffs on U.S. autos, including a 25% rate on that sector, remain in place."
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        {
          "url": "https://www.wrvo.org/2026-09-08/carney-warns-canadians-of-tough-times-ahead-as-counter-tariffs-take-effect",
          "outlet": "WRVO Public Media",
          "published": "2026-09-08",
          "quote": "Just hours after Ottawa’s counter tariffs kicked in, Prime Minister Mark Carney warned Canadians of tough times ahead, during a video address to the nation. Carney told Canadians that there’s always a cost to action, but it doesn’t come close to the cost of standing still."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/programs/international-trade-finance-policy/canadas-response-us-tariffs/complete-list-us-products-subject-to-counter-tariffs.html",
          "outlet": "Department of Finance Canada",
          "published": "2026-09-08",
          "quote": "In certain sectors, such as steel and aluminum, existing counter-tariffs will increase from 25 per cent to 50 per cent to match U.S. rates."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.quebec.ca/entreprises-et-travailleurs-autonomes/commerce/accords-commerciaux/tarifs-douaniers-americains/tarifs-mesures",
          "outlet": "Gouvernement du Québec",
          "published": "2026-09-08",
          "quote": "Depuis le 8 septembre 2026, les tarifs applicables à la plupart de ces produits ont été haussés à 50 %."
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      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/us-canada-trade-war#n850",
      "date": "2026-08-22",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "50 percent tariffs take effect on about $20 billion of Canadian goods; Carney: 'they asked too much and offered too little'",
      "summary": "The Section 338 duties started at midnight on roughly $20 billion of exports including wine, furniture, dairy, cement, clothing and hockey equipment, about 4 percent of what Canada sells to the United States. At a press conference Carney promised dollar-for-dollar retaliation from September 8, concentrated in steel, dairy, appliances, farm equipment, pulp and paper and electronics, and when asked why it felt like going to war, said 'because we were attacked'. The Canadian dollar fell on Monday.",
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          "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/22/us-canada-trade-talks-collapse-ushering-in-wave-of-new-tariffs.html",
          "outlet": "CNBC",
          "published": "2026-08-22",
          "quote": "The U.S. imposed 50% tariffs on some Canadian products on Saturday after trade talks between the two countries fell apart on Friday."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/22/us-canada-trade-talks-collapse-ushering-in-wave-of-new-tariffs.html",
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          "quote": "\"They asked too much and offered too little,\" he said, adding that Canada had been willing to drop its remaining retaliatory tariffs on steel, aluminum and autos if the United States lowered its own."
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          "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-canada-tariffs-carney-rcna593510",
          "outlet": "NBC News",
          "published": "2026-08-22",
          "quote": "Asked at the news conference why it felt like Carney was “going to war,” the prime minister responded, “Because we were attacked.”"
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        {
          "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/24/canada-us-trade-war-deal.html",
          "outlet": "CNBC",
          "published": "2026-08-24",
          "quote": "The Canadian dollar dropped on Monday morning after trade talks between Ottawa and Washington fell apart, leaving both sides facing higher prices on a wide array of imported goods and threatening Canada's economic growth."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2026/08/canada-announces-targeted-countermeasures-and-substantive-support-for-workers-and-businesses-in-response-to-us-tariffs.html",
          "outlet": "Department of Finance Canada",
          "published": "2026-08-25",
          "quote": "Following the U.S. decision to impose a 50 per cent tariff on $27.6 billion of Canadian goods effective August 22, Minister Champagne confirmed today that Canada will match the new U.S. tariffs dollar for dollar, rate for rate, with additional Canadian tariffs on U.S. goods."
        }
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      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/us-canada-trade-war#n849",
      "date": "2026-08-21",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Talks collapse at the deadline: Carney walks away from 'a bad deal'; Greer says Canada declined to finalize",
      "summary": "Minutes before midnight Carney suspended negotiations and recalled his team, saying last-minute U.S. changes were unfair and uneconomic. He later named the sticking points: no tariff relief for trucks and a dispute over Canadian content in vehicles, U.S. language restricting Canada's other trade deals, and demands touching French-language and cultural protections. Greer said the deal on the table cut steel, aluminum, auto and lumber tariffs and that Canada had walked back commitments.",
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          "url": "https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2026/08/21/statement-prime-minister-carney-canada-us-trade-negotiations",
          "outlet": "Prime Minister of Canada",
          "published": "2026-08-21",
          "quote": "As a result, this evening, I have decided to suspend trade negotiations with the U.S. and have directed Canada’s negotiators to return to Ottawa."
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          "url": "https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2026/08/21/statement-prime-minister-carney-canada-us-trade-negotiations",
          "outlet": "Prime Minister of Canada",
          "published": "2026-08-21",
          "quote": "However, last-minute changes in the U.S. proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal."
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          "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/21/economy/us-canada-trade",
          "outlet": "CNN",
          "published": "2026-08-22",
          "quote": "“Canada declined to finalize the trade deal under the terms agreed earlier this week,” US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said early Saturday in a post on X. He said the deal included “significant tariff reductions on steel, aluminum, autos, and lumber,” as well as “a historic economic and national security partnership.” “Despite the U.S. offer to Canada to receive the best treatment of any major exporter to our market, new demands and walk backs of other commitments by Canada have upended the careful balance reached in the past days,” Greer said."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/12031459/united-states-canada-trade-talks-issues/",
          "outlet": "Global News",
          "published": "2026-08-22",
          "quote": "The prime minister said Saturday the two sides disagreed over “the treatment of Canadian content” in vehicles, while the United States was only willing to agree to a trade deal on cars and would not extend it to medium or heavy vehicles like trucks."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/12031459/united-states-canada-trade-talks-issues/",
          "outlet": "Global News",
          "published": "2026-08-22",
          "quote": "“The U.S. introduced, in the last hours, efforts to restrict our ability to have other trade deals,” Carney said Saturday."
        }
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      "date": "2026-08-18",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Two hours before the deadline, Trump pauses the tariffs three days: 'we have a DEAL!'",
      "summary": "With the 50 percent duties due at 12:01 a.m. on August 19, Trump posted that they were paused for three days because the two countries had a deal subject to finalizing documents. A proclamation said Canada had committed to remove the alcohol, dairy and vehicle measures. Carney's statement said substantial progress had been made with important work still to do, and confirmed the postponement to end of day August 21.",
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          "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/trump-says-us-and-canada-reached-last-minute-deal-to-delay-50-us-tariffs-on-canadian-imports",
          "outlet": "PBS News (Associated Press)",
          "published": "2026-08-19",
          "quote": "President Donald Trump said Tuesday he was delaying the 50% U.S. tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian imports after the two countries reached a last-minute deal less than two hours before the sanctions were to go into effect."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/trump-says-us-and-canada-reached-last-minute-deal-to-delay-50-us-tariffs-on-canadian-imports",
          "outlet": "PBS News (Associated Press)",
          "published": "2026-08-19",
          "quote": "\"I have paused the 50% Tariffs against Canada, that were scheduled to kick in tomorrow morning for a three day period, based on the fact that Canada and the U.S.A., subject to the finalization of documents, have a DEAL!\""
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2026/08/18/statement-prime-minister-carney-ongoing-canada-us-trade-negotiations",
          "outlet": "Prime Minister of Canada",
          "published": "2026-08-18",
          "quote": "Substantial progress has been made, although there is important work still to be done. As this work is ongoing, the United States has agreed to postpone the implementation of its 50% tariff on a range of Canadian goods under Section 338 of the U.S. Tariff Act of 1930 until end of day, August 21."
        }
      ]
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      "id": 847,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/us-canada-trade-war#n847",
      "date": "2026-07-20",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Section 338, unused since 1930: three proclamations for 50 percent tariffs on autos, alcohol and dairy-linked goods",
      "summary": "Trump revived Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, which lets a president impose up to 50 percent duties on a country that discriminates against U.S. commerce, and signed three proclamations targeting Canada's auto tariffs and quotas, the provincial bans on American alcohol and the cheese tariff-rate quotas. Unlike the fentanyl tariffs, the duties applied regardless of USMCA origin, covering goods from wine to hockey sticks to cement, and were to take effect in 30 days. Carney said Canada had merely matched U.S. measures and was ready to intensify talks.",
      "type": "regulatory",
      "entities": [
        "Donald Trump",
        "Mark Carney"
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      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/07/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-imposes-additional-tariffs-on-canada/",
          "outlet": "The White House",
          "published": "2026-07-20",
          "quote": "Today, President Donald J. Trump signed three Proclamations pursuant to Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to impose additional 50% tariffs on certain goods of Canada in response to Canada’s discriminatory treatment of American products."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/07/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-imposes-additional-tariffs-on-canada/",
          "outlet": "The White House",
          "published": "2026-07-20",
          "quote": "These Section 338 tariffs apply to all covered goods regardless of whether a good originates under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). These Section 338 tariffs will not apply to energy, potash, products subject to tariffs under Section 232, and certain other goods, such as fish or critical minerals."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2026/07/20/statement-prime-minister-carney-united-states-administrations-intention",
          "outlet": "Prime Minister of Canada",
          "published": "2026-07-20",
          "quote": "These include tariffs on the Canadian auto sector, in violation of CUSMA. Canada, as is its right, has merely matched those measures. More broadly, in response to these measures and threats to Canadian sovereignty, provinces, territories, and Canadians from coast to coast to coast have stood together, taking the necessary actions to support our economy and defend our workers, farmers, businesses, and families."
        }
      ]
    },
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      "id": 843,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/us-canada-trade-war#n843",
      "date": "2026-01-24",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Trump threatens 100 percent tariffs over Canada's China deal; Carney says there is no free-trade agreement",
      "summary": "Days after Carney's Davos speech about middle powers and economic coercion, and after Ottawa and Beijing agreed to lower tariffs on Chinese EVs and Canadian canola, Trump posted that 'Governor Carney' would not make Canada a drop-off port for China and threatened 100 percent tariffs if Canada made a deal. Carney said Canada had no intention of pursuing a free-trade agreement with China and that the arrangement was consistent with CUSMA.",
      "type": "announcement",
      "entities": [
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        "Mark Carney"
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        {
          "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/24/business/trump-canada-tariff-threat",
          "outlet": "CNN",
          "published": "2026-01-24",
          "quote": "President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to slap 100% tariffs on Canadian imports if America’s second-biggest trading partner makes a trade deal with China."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/24/business/trump-canada-tariff-threat",
          "outlet": "CNN",
          "published": "2026-01-24",
          "quote": "Earlier this month, Carney met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on his turf, where they formed a “new strategic partnership,” with Canada easing tariffs on Chinese EVs and allowing up to 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles into its market annually."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/26/canada-china-trade-deal-tariffs-trump.html",
          "outlet": "CNBC",
          "published": "2026-01-26",
          "quote": "Canada has \"no intention\" of pursuing a free trade deal with China, Prime Minister Mark Carney said, after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to slap punitive tariffs on Ottawa."
        }
      ]
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      "summary": "After a call with Trump, Carney announced Canada would match the U.S. exemption by removing its tariffs on American goods covered by USMCA, saying the two countries had re-established free trade for the vast majority of goods and that Canada had the best deal of any U.S. partner. The steel, aluminum and auto counter-tariffs stayed. Critics asked whether 'elbows up' had become folding; the White House called the move long overdue.",
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          "quote": "“In this context and consistent with Canada’s commitment to USMCA, I am announcing today that the Canadian government will now match the United States by removing all of Canada’s tariffs on US goods specifically covered under USMCA,” said Carney, noting that the change would take effect on September 1."
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      "date": "2025-07-10",
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      "title": "Trump's letter to Carney: 35 percent from August 1, more if Canada retaliates",
      "summary": "Instead of the July 21 deal, Carney got a letter posted to Truth Social raising the fentanyl tariff to 35 percent from August 1, citing Canada's retaliation and its dairy and other trade barriers. Trump warned that any Canadian increase would be added to the 35 percent. Carney replied that Canada had made vital progress on fentanyl and would keep defending its workers toward the new deadline.",
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          "quote": "U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday raised tariffs on Canadian imports to 35%, effective Aug. 1, complaining that Ottawa had retaliated with duties against Washington."
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          "quote": "\"If for any reason you decide to raise your Tariffs, then, whatever the number you choose to raise them by, will be added onto the 35% that we charge,\" Trump said Thursday."
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      "summary": "On June 27 Trump said he was terminating all trade discussions with Canada over the 3 percent digital services tax on U.S. tech companies, due for its first collection on June 30. On June 29 Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne rescinded the tax, and the two leaders agreed to resume negotiations toward a deal by July 21, the deadline set at the G7 summit in Kananaskis.",
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          "quote": "To support those negotiations, the Minister of Finance and National Revenue, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, announced today that Canada would rescind the Digital Services Tax (DST) in anticipation of a mutually beneficial comprehensive trade arrangement with the United States. Consistent with this action, Prime Minister Carney and President Trump have agreed that parties will resume negotiations with a view towards agreeing on a deal by July 21, 2025."
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      "summary": "A week after winning the election on an anti-Trump platform, Carney sat beside Trump for a cordial but pointed first meeting. Trump said there was nothing Carney could say to make him lift the tariffs, and that morning had posted that the United States was subsidizing Canada by $200 billion a year and did not need its cars, energy or lumber.",
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          "quote": "Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told President Donald Trump on Tuesday that his country will never be for sale, shutting down the U.S. president's repeated calls to make Canada the 51st state."
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          "quote": "Canada is \"not for sale\" and \"won't be for sale ever,\" the prime minister said. Trump replied: \"Never say never.\""
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      "summary": "Six days after the U.S. auto tariffs began, Canada's mirror measure came into force: 25 percent on fully assembled vehicles from the United States that do not meet USMCA rules, and 25 percent on the non-Canadian, non-Mexican content of vehicles that do, with a remission framework for automakers that kept production in Canada. Carney had announced the response on April 3, the day the U.S. tariff started.",
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          "quote": "The Minister of Finance, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, today confirmed that Canada’s new countermeasures announced last week in response to the unjustified tariffs imposed by the United States on the Canadian auto industry will come into force at 12:01 a.m. on April 9."
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      "summary": "The day after Trump announced 25 percent tariffs on imported vehicles, new Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters after a cabinet meeting that the relationship built on deepening economic integration and security cooperation was over, that the United States was no longer a reliable partner, and that Canada would have to dramatically reduce its reliance on it. The line became the frame for his election campaign and his government's trade strategy.",
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          "quote": "Canada will have to “dramatically reduce” its reliance on the United States as the two countries’ relationship darkens, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned on Thursday, adding that the old bilateral relationship was “over.”"
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