{"id":7825,"date":"2026-09-09T08:48:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/?p=7825"},"modified":"2026-09-09T08:48:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:48:54","slug":"the-united-states-trade-war-with-canada-heats-up-with-new-tariffs-on-vehicle-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/the-united-states-trade-war-with-canada-heats-up-with-new-tariffs-on-vehicle-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"The United States\u2019 Trade War with Canada Heats Up with New Tariffs on Vehicle Imports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On September 8, President Trump signed five proclamations under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, escalating the Administration\u2019s response to what it describes as continued Canadian discrimination against U.S. commerce involving motor vehicles, dairy, and alcoholic beverages. Three of the proclamations exclude certain Canadian products from importation into the United States, effective at 12:01 AM ET on September 29, 2026. The remaining two, including the proclamation on motor vehicles and auto-related products, modify the scope of products subject to the existing 50 percent tariff, with those changes taking effect at 12:01 AM ET on September 15, 2026.&nbsp;Earlier on September 8, Canada\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/department-finance\/news\/2026\/08\/list-of-products-from-the-united-states-subject-to-counter-tariffs-effective-september-8-2026.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retaliatory tariffs<\/a>&nbsp;on U.S. exports went into effect. Additional background on the motor vehicle proclamation is included below. Section 338 authorizes the President to exclude articles of a foreign country from importation where that country&nbsp;maintains&nbsp;or increases discrimination against U.S.&nbsp;commerce&nbsp;and the President&nbsp;deems&nbsp;exclusion consistent with the public interest and the interests of the United States. The September 8 actions are the first use of that exclusion authority in this dispute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Import Bans Affecting the Automotive Industry (effective September 29)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Motor Vehicles:<\/strong>\u00a0A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2026\/09\/excluding-certain-canadian-products-from-importation-into-the-united-states-in-response-to-continued-discrimination-against-the-commerce-of-the-united-states-with-respect-to-motor-vehicles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proclamation<\/a>\u00a0excluding from importation certain Canadian products currently subject to the\u00a0additional\u00a0duties imposed under Proclamation\u00a011048. The President finds that Canada did not revoke its motor vehicle tariff scheme following imposition of the duties.<br>     &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ANNEX-I-MOTOR-VEHICLES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ANNEX<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ul>\n<div class=\"niada-bottomboard niada-entity-placement\" id=\"niada-3043275107\"><div id=\"niada-2158023389\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/goldstandardautomotive.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"NIADA Banner 0626 970x66px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/NIADA-Banner-0626-970x66px.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/NIADA-Banner-0626-970x66px.png 970w, https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/NIADA-Banner-0626-970x66px-300x20.png 300w, https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/NIADA-Banner-0626-970x66px-768x52.png 768w, https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/NIADA-Banner-0626-970x66px-380x26.png 380w, https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/NIADA-Banner-0626-970x66px-550x37.png 550w, https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/NIADA-Banner-0626-970x66px-800x54.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" width=\"970\" height=\"66\"   \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On September 8, President Trump signed five proclamations under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, escalating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-industry","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7827,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825\/revisions\/7827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}