The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has implemented a tariff of 10 per cent on aluminum imported from Canada. "I have determined that the measures agreed upon with Canada are not providing an effective alternative means to address the threatened impairment to our national security from imports of aluminum from Canada," the presidential proclamation reads. "Thus, I have determined that it is necessary and appropriate to re-impose the 10 per cent ad valorem tariff ... on imports of non-alloyed unwrought aluminum articles from Canada." Canada supplied about three-quarters of all the aluminum imported into the U.S. between January and May of 2020, said the executive order implementing the tariff on "non-alloyed unwrought aluminum." Similarly here, the aluminum tariffs were excluded from the comprehensive trade deal that the U.S. and Canada and Mexico agreed to in 2019.

Source: CBC News August 06, 2020 20:23 UTC