Thursday, August 20

Topic: trade

A container ship at a port terminal
Business
Friday, 7/24, 01:33 AM

Trump Imposes New Tariffs on 60 Countries as Old Ones Expire

  • The Trump administration has imposed new tariffs of 10 to 12.5 percent on imports from 60 countries, which together supply almost all of what the US buys from abroad.
  • The measures, taking effect on Friday as temporary tariffs expire, are justified as a response to weak enforcement of bans on forced-labor goods.
Cargo terminals at the Port of Vancouver, British Columbia (file photograph)
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Carney backs an Alberta-to-Pacific oil pipeline to court Asian buyers

  • Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney threw his weight on July 2 behind a proposed oil pipeline from Alberta to British Columbia's Pacific coast, part of a push to sell more Canadian crude to Asia and lean less on the United States.
  • But he coupled the support with a promise to keep a tanker ban off northern BC — and the project still has no private company willing to build it.

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In brief

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