Beyond USMCA's poison pill: How Canada building post-American trade architecture
At 00:01 EST on August 22, 2026, the United States imposed 50 percent tariffs on approximately $20 billion worth of Canadian goods, invoking Section 338 of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930—a "ghost clause" from the Great Depression that had not been used against America's closest ally in nearly a century.
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