[Salon] Canada Announces New Post-Labor Day Tariffs

Canada Announces New Post-Labor Day Tariffs

Duties come after trade talks between the U.S. and Canada broke down

By 

Amanda Coletta

Aug. 22, 2026    The Wall Street Journal

Tractor trailers on the two levels of the Blue Water Bridge under a dark sky.The Blue Water Bridge that connects Michigan and Ontario, Canada. Brett Gundlock/Bloomberg News

  • Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada will impose dollar-for-dollar tariffs on U.S. goods in retaliation for U.S. tariffs on Canadian exports.View more

TORONTO—Prime Minister Mark Carney on Saturday said Canada would impose dollar-for-dollar tariffs on U.S. goods including steel, pulp and paper, electronics and appliances, in retaliation for U.S. tariffs on Canadian exports that went into effect early in the morning.

Trade talks between the neighbors fell apart at the last minute on Friday.

Canadian negotiators, Carney said, had worked “intensively” and “in good faith” with their U.S. counterparts toward inking a “comprehensive” trade deal to stave off the new levies, but U.S. officials had “proposed new terms” in recent days that “revealed the limits of their commitments to a true economic partnership.”

“In short,” the prime minister said at a news conference in Ottawa, “they asked too much and they offered too little.”

Canada’s countertariffs will go into effect the Tuesday after Labor Day, he said.

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Amanda Coletta is the Canada correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, based in Toronto. Her stories seek to explain Canada's evolving relationship with the U.S. and its broader place in the world. She writes about trade, energy policy, immigration and the social and economic trends shaping the world's

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