Canada is mostly unaffected by a new U.S. tariff ostensibly targeting goods made with slave labour, business leaders, lawyers and economists say.
Late Thursday, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer announced that dozens of countries, including Canada, are getting hit with a new tariff because they either don’t have any system to bar goods with slave labour, or aren’t applying anti-slave labour rules effectively.
Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom are among the countries getting hit with a 10 per cent tariff, while other nations are seeing a 12.5 per cent levy.
