{"id":2142,"date":"2025-02-03T03:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T03:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2025-02-03T03:40:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T03:40:19","slug":"canada-to-challenge-us-tariffs-through-legal-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/2025\/02\/03\/canada-to-challenge-us-tariffs-through-legal-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada to Challenge US Tariffs Through Legal Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ottawa: <\/strong>Canada plans to take legal action against the United States over newly imposed 25% tariffs on most Canadian imports, calling them illegal and unjustified. A senior government official confirmed that Canada will challenge the tariffs through international trade bodies, arguing that they violate trade agreements with the US.<\/p><p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has responded with countermeasures, imposing 25% tariffs on 1,256 US products\u2014amounting to 17% of US imports to Canada\u2014starting Tuesday. The targeted goods, worth approximately C$30 billion, include cosmetics, appliances, paper products, peanut butter, and motorcycles. A second list, to be released in three weeks, will add more items such as passenger vehicles, steel, aluminum, and aerospace products, affecting a total import value of C$125 billion.<\/p><p>Trump\u2019s tariffs exclude Canadian energy products, which will instead face a 10% duty beginning February 18. His administration claims the measures address issues like illegal immigration and the flow of fentanyl into the US. However, Canada views them as a violation of trade commitments under both its free trade agreements and the World Trade Organization (WTO).<\/p><p>In response, Canada will offer domestic businesses a mechanism to seek relief from retaliatory tariffs. Officials acknowledged that the tariffs and countermeasures will impact the Canadian economy but did not provide specific estimates.<\/p><p>The escalating trade conflict, which also involves Mexico and China, risks disrupting global economic growth and fueling inflation. Canada and Mexico remain the US\u2019s largest trading partners.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa: Canada plans to take legal action against the United States over newly imposed 25% tariffs on most Canadian imports, calling them illegal and unjustified. A senior government official confirmed that Canada will challenge the tariffs through international trade bodies, arguing that they violate trade agreements with the US. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has responded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international-en"},"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2144,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions\/2144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}