{"id":712803,"date":"2026-06-03T18:35:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/712803\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T18:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:35:20","slug":"proposed-u-s-forced-labour-tariffs-are-not-a-surprise-carney-says-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/712803\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed U.S. forced labour tariffs are \u2018not a surprise,\u2019 Carney says &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>New forced labour <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/donald-trump-tariffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">tariffs<\/a> proposed by the United States are \u201cnot a surprise\u201d for Canada, Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/mark-carney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mark Carney<\/a> said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration early on Wednesday said it was proposing an additional tariff of 10 per cent or more on products from dozens of major trading partners, including Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a surprise,\u201d Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters in Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something that the U.S. has been planning for a few months,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The report released early Wednesday by the U.S. Trade Representative said Canada, Mexico, Taiwan and the United Kingdom, as well as some other countries, would face 10 per cent additional tariffs for allegedly failing to enforce a forced labour import ban.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you&#8217;ll never miss the day&#8217;s top stories.<\/p>\n<p>The new tariffs maintain the exception for goods that comply with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement, also known as CUSMA, Carney said.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat puts us in a position where, again, we would still have the best trade deal of any of the U.S. trade counterparts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Canada also supports the objective behind the new tariffs, Carney added.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRelated Videos\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'U.S. tariffs shut down long-time North Van jewelry store'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WEB_jewellry_PCI.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:39<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tU.S. tariffs shut down long-time North Van jewelry store\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPrevious Video<\/p>\n<p>\t\tNext Video<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Economy<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe motivation of the U.S. action, the 301 tariffs or proposed tariffs against a variety of countries, is something that we share. Canada has a very strong legislative regime against forced labour in supply chains,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want any element of forced labour coming in goods and services and we want to use our influence to eliminate this practice of forced labour and child labour,\u201d Carney added.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013with files from The Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size New forced labour tariffs proposed by the United States are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,1849,8334,46,2659,44],"class_list":["post-712803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-consumer","tag-donald-trump-tariffs","tag-economy","tag-mark-carney","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}