North American country and G7 member, one of the United States' largest trading partners with deep energy, auto, and metals trade ties.
China's share of biomedical-engineering output in the Nature Index rose from 28.9% to 50.9% between 2021 and 2025. Paper counts in the field grew 70%, but China's own weighting toward it rose only 0.7 points.
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Canada's search for partners outside Washington now has a work order behind it, because the two governments told their space agencies and defence ministries to share infrastructure. The gas Macron asked for still waits on contracts.
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Von der Leyen's Strasbourg speech announced a heatwave plan, a European Security Council and associate membership for Canada. Her AI and children's social media items came as subject headings.
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Washington put 50 per cent tariffs on US$20 billion of Canadian goods on August 22 and Ottawa answered at the same scale. At unchanged volumes that is about $10 billion of duty facing each side, on two very different export bases.
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Fortune attributes the US goods deficit with Canada to oil bought cheap for Midwest refineries. Washington's answer so far is a 50% tariff on $20 billion of Canadian products and an import ban on whey, alcohol and mopeds.
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Steel, aluminum and copper duties running from 15% to 50% mean the customs line on an invoice now matters more than the metal described on it. The critical-minerals exemption, meanwhile, sits upstream of where manufacturers actually buy.
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The $20 billion hike and Canada's Tuesday retaliation arrive before the midterms; the 50 percent auto and steel tariff Trump promised is dated 2027, with no negotiated off-ramp in sight.
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The tariff is live across more than 500 categories and Ottawa's answer is dated September 8. Buyers get 17 days, plus a court precedent that cuts against long contracts.
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Talks collapsed, 50% duties landed on $20 billion of Canadian goods, and retaliation is dated Sept. 8. Nothing in the record gives a planner a date to wait for.
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Greer's account leaves neither capital a price at which to re-enter. No talks are scheduled, and duties on more than $20bn of goods carry a roughly $10bn bill.
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US importers remit the duty on $20 billion of Canadian goods. Canada says it will match dollar for dollar, and the future of the three-country trade pact is now the open question.
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Section 338 of the Tariff Act has never been aimed at Canada before. The carve-outs, not the headline rate, show what Washington thinks it can afford to tax.
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Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 has sat essentially unused for most of a century. Its revival will outlast whatever deal lands before the August 19 deadline.
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