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USA & Canada Intelligence Brief — Friday, 25 September 2026 The Capitol in Washington. The Senate refused by fifty votes to forty-nine to order the fighting in Iran stopped, with four Republicans crossing and one Democrat… The post USA & Canada Intelligence Brief — Friday, September 25, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief — Monday, 21 September 2026 The United States Capitol in Washington at dusk. Speaker Mike Johnson has sent the House of Representatives home until after the elections of 3 November, CBS… The post USA & Canada Intelligence Brief — Monday, September 21, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer discusses trade talks with China, the possibility of a diesel export ban, and the state of relations with Canada and the renegotiation of the USMCA. (Source: Bloomberg)
Uranium project investment could mark a turning point in US-Niger and US-Canada relations.
US President Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday to cut trade with the European Union after the bloc proposed to make Canada its first-ever associate member. EU chief Ursula von der Leyen raised the prospect a day before Canadian leader Mark Carney was due to address the European Parliament. Her pitch comes as both Canada and the European Union seek to pivot away from an aggressive US under Trump’s leadership. “I think it’s laughable,” Trump told reporters when asked about the plan. “If they do...
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief — Wednesday, September 16, 2026 The Marriner S. Eccles building in Washington. The Federal Reserve’s rate-setting committee raised its target range to 3.75 to 4.00 per cent here today, in a… The post USA & Canada Intelligence Brief — Wednesday, September 16, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.
Rio Times · USA & Canada Intelligence Brief September 13, 2026 USA & Canada Intelligence Brief — Sunday, September 13, 2026 Key Facts The shelves. Canada's buy-Canadian boycott is visibly reshaping supermarkets, Reuters reports — grocers are relabelling and re-sourcing as shoppers reject American goods. The bans. The White House plans to ban Canadian dairy, most alcohol and motorcycles from 29 September, while a separate fifty per cent tariff on goods including mattresses, motorboats and golf carts lands on 15 September. The retaliation. Canada's counter-tariffs — a multi-billion-dollar package of duties at varying rates — are now in effect, and Prime Minister Carney says Canada will move faster to cut its economic reliance on the United States. The prices. American consumer prices rose three point four per cent in August, matching July. The post USA & Canada Intelligence Brief — Sunday, September 13, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.
The US and Canada escalated a bitter trade dispute on Tuesday, with Washington imposing new import bans on Canadian alcohol, motorcycles and dairy products as Ottawa's retaliatory tariffs on US goods took effect.
The US is banning dairy products, most alcoholic drinks and motorcycles from Canada, the White House said on Tuesday, as the trade war between the two neighbours and long-time allies escalates. The ban will take effect in three weeks and comes after Canada imposed retaliatory tariffs on US$20 billion in US imports earlier on Tuesday. A range of Canadian products from mattresses to motorboats and golf carts will be subject to a 50 per cent surcharge beginning September 15, a presidential...
US President Donald Trump threatened on Monday to block sales of Canadian planemaker Bombardier in the United States unless it builds aircraft in the country, escalating trade tensions on the eve of Canadian retaliatory tariffs. Trump accused Canada of “unjust and unfair” trade practices but did not explain how a ban would work.
Trump targets aeroplane maker again, accusing Canada of unfair practices and threatening to block sales in the US.