Anywho…Trump & tariffs. U.S. tariffs on Canadian dairy and lumber
may not arrive until next month, according to interviews President Donald Trump and his top commerce official gave to media outlets this weekend.
Trump threatened Friday he
may hit Canadian lumber and dairy with "reciprocal" tariffs, which he said could come within days.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told NBC's “Meet the Press” on Sunday that the tariffs on Canadian dairy and lumber
will wait until April.
Lutnick said 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminum imports
will take effect Wednesday as scheduled, which the White House has said would stack on top of the other duties imposed on Canada.
U.S. tariffs on Canadian dairy and lumber may not arrive until next month, ac
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Meanwhile…the US has rejected a Canadian proposal to establish a task force that would tackle Russia’s so-called shadow fleet of oil tankers, as the Trump administration re-evaluates its positions across multilateral organizations, according to people familiar with the matter.
Canada, which holds this year’s revolving G-7 presidency, will host a summit of foreign ministers in Charlevoix, Québec, next week. In negotiations to formulate a joint statement on maritime issues, the US is pushing to strengthen language around China while watering down wording on Russia,

said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing sensitive matters that aren’t public.
(The term “shadow fleet” is used to refer to aging oil tankers concealed to overcome Western sanctions imposed on Moscow since it launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Read more:
How an Aging Armada and Mystery Traders Keep Russian Oil Afloat)
As well as vetoing Canada’s proposal to establish a task force to monitor for sanction breaches, the draft G-7 statement seen by Bloomberg News shows the US pushed to remove the word “sanctions,” as well as wording citing Russia’s “ability to maintain its war” in Ukraine by replacing it with “earn revenue.”
Anyone within an opinion different than this can potentially be looking at 25% tariffs…maybe…then maybe not, then maybe, but they may not, maybe.
Still, relations between the US and other Western powers have frayed significantly. Last month, for example, allies were unable to publish a joint statement to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine — something they’d done the previous two years — after the US opposed strong condemnation of Russia.
The US has rejected a Canadian proposal to establish a task force that would tackle Russia’s so-called shadow fleet of oil tankers, as the Trump administration re-evaluates its positions across multilateral organizations, according to people familiar with the matter.
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