There is “no basis” for slapping 10 per cent duties on Canada for failing to enforce its prohibition, Ottawa wrote in a submission to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, because its plan to publish a list of high-risk goods is “aligned and consistent” with the Americans. (The Logic)

Talking point: The Liberal government introduced the legislation just over a week after the Trump administration threatened Section 301 tariffs on more than 60 countries. Trade lawyer Barry Appleton, who noted Ottawa’s absence from public hearings this week in Washington, D.C., said that will not be enough to sway Trump, who is intent on tariffs that do not have to go through Congress. He also said there is no guarantee a carve-out for the North American trade pact will stay. “This is a process to figure out what the punishment is,” he told The Logic. “They’ve already judged all these countries to be guilty.”