Japanese brewing company Sapporo said Monday it will shift some of its production from Canada to the U.S. in the wake of the Trump administration’s new tariffs on Canadian beer. Last month, President Trump implemented 50 percent levies on Canadian alcoholic products like beer and wine, in addition to a wide variety of other imported...
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Trump orders $50 billion ban on Canadian jet maker headquartered in his own party's Kansas backyard.
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Tuesday's filing runs like this. At the stroke of the tariffs taking effect, Ottawa's retaliatory list closed at $27.6 billion — duties of 15 to 50 percent, dollar for dollar, on milk and cream, steel, aluminum, paper, and the agricultural equipment that plants what becomes milk and cream. That same Tuesday, Washington opened its own filing: an order blocking Canadian products from a federal contracting program worth more than $50 billion a year. Two capitals, one morning, two very large numbers moving in opposite directions.
The $27.6 billion did not start at $27.6 billion. On August 24th, after talks collapsed, Canada announced $20 billion in retaliatory tariffs set to take effect on September 8th — today. Three days later, on August 27th, Ottawa's own finance department pulled seafood off the list after "feedback" from the fishing industry, which should have brought the total down. It went up instead, to $27.6 billion. The column that was supposed to shrink grew by more than a third while a piece of it was being removed at the same time. That is not a rounding error; that is a trade war getting bigger while one industry successfully lobbied its way out of it.…
…(cont) The $50 billion block has its own gap. It targets Bombardier, a Québec-based aerospace company — whose U.S. headquarters, the filing shows, sits in Kansas. Kansas Republicans did not celebrate the ban; they called it out, publicly, because the manufacturer the President ordered blacklisted turned out to be headquartered in his own party's home state.
None of this is news to the people running it. The U.S. Trade Representative was asked last week if talks with Canada might resume and said it was "more their emergency than ours." Prime Minister Carney said this week that Canada spent forty years enjoying "easy" business with a neighbor it no longer recognizes as one; a poll released the same week found 41 percent of Canadians now call the United States an enemy, up from 26 percent last year. Sapporo, for its part, is moving some beer production out of Canada and into the United States, citing the 50 percent levy on Canadian alcohol Washington imposed last month — one column's job gain, entered on the other column's ledger as a loss.
Add it up: a $50 billion program blocked to punish a company that pays a Kansas payroll, a $27.6 billion bill that grew while shrinking, in a country the receipts confirm doesn't care for us anymore. The books balance, hon. They just don't balance for the people who signed the order.
“They tell you there's no money for a $50 billion contracting freeze, and then there it is — $50 billion, aimed at a door with a Kansas zip code and a Kansas payroll behind it. Same week Canada's tariffs land on your milk, your steel, your lobster if you're up in Maine, and Sapporo just packs the beer line up and drives it across the border like the workers left behind don't exist. This isn't a trade war, it's a receipt with somebody's name quietly pulled off the delivery.”
“Look, this is about protecting American industrial capacity and refusing to let a foreign firm profit off federal contracts — full stop, that's the whole policy. The fact that Bombardier's headquarters happens to sit in a deep-red state is a coincidence of geography, not a talking point, and if Kansas Republicans have concerns they can take it up with — wait, did I just say our own guys are mad about this? That's not — strike that, we're all aligned here.”
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President Donald Trump’s warning to block a Canadian-based aircraft manufacturer from selling in the United States as part of an escalating trade war has set off alarm bells among Republicans in Kansas, where the company has its U.S. headquarters. Trump made the threat against Bombardier aerospace company Monday as part of a series of…
The U.S.-Canada trade war is deepening after talks collapsed without a deal on Friday. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney accused the Trump administration of issuing demands that would compromise Canada’s sovereignty and undermine key industries. On Saturday, the United States slapped 50% tariffs on around $20 billion worth of imports…
A survey released Saturday by polling firm Leger finds that a plurality of Canadians now view the US as an "enemy" nation thanks to President Donald Trump's repeated attacks on their economy and national sovereignty. In all, the poll finds that 41% of Canadians now consider the US enemy, compared with 22% who say the US is an ally, and…
Republicans pushed back against Trump's call to ban sales by Québec-based aerospace giant Bombardier.
President Donald Trump ordered his administration Tuesday to begin blocking Canadian products from a federal contracting program worth more than $50 billion annually, opening another front in the rapidly escalating feud between the United States and Canada. Trump said in a Truth Social post that he directed the General Services…
President Trump threatened to ban Bombardier sales in the U.S. as Canada's retaliatory tariffs take effect. Here's what to know about the aircraft maker.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday his country has overrelied on "easy" economic ties to the U.S., a take he shared as his retaliatory tariffs on American goods went into effect. “The past 40 years has been a period of deeper economic integration with the United States. Truth is, it was easy business, but...
Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on an array of U.S. goods went into effect on Tuesday, marking the latest chapter of a weekslong trade war between the two countries. The “dollar for dollar”
· No negotiations with Canada right now: US trade rep from the morgue, 1 Sep 2026
· How Trump kneecapped his own China policy with a 50% tariff on Canada from the morgue, 2 Sep 2026
· Maine Lobstermen's Association fears becoming 'collateral damage' in Canada tariff war from the morgue, 26 Aug 2026
· Canada pulls back on some tariffs after ‘feedback’ from seafood industry from the morgue, 27 Aug 2026
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