WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday he is renaming Lake Ontario to be known as "Lake America" in the United States as he escalates his trade war with Canada. The Republican president signed an executive order directing the Interior Department to update the lake 's name in...
TORONTO (AP) — Canada struck back at the United States on Tuesday with retaliatory tariffs on about $20 billion worth of American goods, including steel, dairy products, appliances and farm equipment, as the trade war between the once-friendly neighbors escalated sharply. The confrontation...
TORONTO (AP) — Canada will announce retaliatory tariffs against the United States on Tuesday after relations deteriorated sharply Monday, with President Donald Trump telling Canadian leaders to “fall in line” or face consequences “far WORSE” than existing tariffs and Prime Minister Mark...
CHICAGO (AP) — After trade negotiations crumbled at the eleventh hour, U.S. President Donald Trump 's 50% tariffs on scores of Canadian imports kicked in Saturday. The new levies are expected to affect about 5% of Canada 's annual exports to the U.S., roughly $20 billion in goods...
BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Colombia 's President Abelardo de la Espriella has asked his ally U.S. President Donald Trump to suspend tariffs to help the South American nation recover from a powerful earthquake that killed at least 289 people. De la Espriella took office earlier this month just...
CEBU CITY – A group of exporters in Cebu expressed concern over the imposition of an additional 12.5 percent tariff by the United States on Philippine exports. The Philippine Exporters Confederation (Philexport)-Cebu chapter supported calls for the Philippine government to engage with the Office...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) is exploring the imposition of higher tariffs by at least 13 percentage points (ppt) on certain rice imports from four of its major suppliers, including Vietnam, as a safeguard measure to mitigate the impact of rising imports on the domestic rice industry. Upon...
Pakistan, one of the Philippines’ top rice suppliers, has questioned whether the Philippine government is complying with global trade rules in its plan to impose safeguard measures to restrict rice imports and shield local farmers. During the Tariff Commission’s (TC) preliminary conference on...
The Tariff Commission (TC) has initiated a formal investigation to determine whether to impose a definitive safeguard measure on imported rice to provide relief to the local industry, which has been reeling from the surge in foreign shipments. In a notice, the TC announced it launched the probe...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government can continue collecting the 10% worldwide tariff it imposed in February while legal challenges to the levies continue to work their way through the courts, a federal court ruled Thursday. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington decision...
The Tariff Commission (TC) has launched an investigation to determine the merits of a proposal seeking to implement a uniform five-percent tariff rate on corn imports to prevent increases in pork and chicken prices. In a notice dated June 10, the TC said it has started a probe into a petition filed...
NEW YORK (AP) — Businesses big and small have started receiving tariff refunds after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump lacked the constitutional authority to impose higher import taxes on goods from nearly every other country. The process could grind to a halt, however,...
