Cheese, motorboats included in Trump's latest tariffs
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The latest round of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian goods took effect after midnight on Tuesday, adding a 50% tax on products that include cheeses, vehicles such as motorboats and ATVs and some furniture.
Trump is also set to impose stiff tariffs on Canadian alcohol and dairy products on Sept. 29.
But Trump’s administration did say in a statement it would remove tariffs on items such as salt, sugar, cement and toilet paper to “offset the burden to U.S. commerce while better serving the public interest.”
Canada: Keeping American rear ends clean
Canada is the largest exporter of toilet paper to the U.S. In 2024, Canada exported around $328 million US worth of toilet paper, or 112,947,000 kg, accounting for more than half of the total volume imported into the country. China and Mexico run a distant second and third.
Americans love their Canadian salt, too: The U.S. imported $159.2 million worth of Canadian salt in 2025, according to UN trade data.
It evens out
What Trump included and removed roughly works out to the same economic value, CBC reported . Tariffs on imports that he removed are worth approximately $2.41 billion, while the new tariffs cover $2.56 billion in trade, Wolfgang Alschner, Hyman Soloway chair in business and trade law at the University of Ottawa, told the outlet. He added that Trump likely removed such tariffs to ease the burden on the American consumer.
“You need salt to salt your roads in winter. So this is not something that’s easily substituted away,” Alschner told the CBC. “Similarly for cement.”
The search for new money
The ongoing trade war has Canada looking for ways to make money beyond the U.S. At an investment summit Tuesday with hundreds of executives and global asset managers, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Canada will allow immediate “mega-deduction” expensing for new capital investment, in an attempt to lure $1 trillion in investment money to Canada over the next five years. He added that Canada will seek private investment at the four largest airports — Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto Pearson.
On the trade war, Carney said if a “mutually beneficial deal” with the U.S. emerges, Canada is “ready to develop that and pursue it.”