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Canada’s New 50% Tariffs Put Packaging, Electrical Inputs and Cross-Border Freight in the Same Risk Bucket

Canada’s latest retaliatory tariffs extend beyond autos, steel and aluminum.

Published August 28, 2026 in The FreightFA Brief, FreightFA's freight market newsletter.

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Canada’s latest retaliatory tariffs extend beyond autos, steel and aluminum. By imposing 50% surtaxes on U.S.-made copper wire, wood charcoal, selected glass containers, gypsum board and printed matter, Ottawa is expanding the trade dispute to include key industrial and packaging inputs essential to North American production and distribution.

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