U.S. bans on Canadian alcohol, dairy, motorcycles take effect

U.S. President Donald Trump’s bans on various Canadian products such as alcohol, dairy byproducts and motorcycles officially began at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday.

On Monday, Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc’s office said the government’s top priority is still protecting and supporting Canadian workers, farmers, families and businesses from this ban.

The new bans escalate the U.S.-Canada trade war as the Trump administration seeks to pressure Canada into concessions in trade talks.

Jacob Jensen, trade policy director for the centre-right American Action Forum, estimates the bans will impact US$967 million in Canadian imports using 2025 data.

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Jensen says 87 per cent of these imports are alcoholic beverages that the U.S. targeted as retaliation against Canadian provinces that previously banned American booze from store shelves in response to Trump.

On Monday, the U.S. president said he expects Canada to return to the negotiating table in the coming weeks with an apology.

“I think what’s going to happen is over the next three or four weeks, they’re going to come to us and they’re gonna say, ‘We’re gonna get rid of all the tariffs,'” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

“We’re going to win everything.”

With Files From The Canadian Press

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