Prime Minister Mark Carney says he isn’t surprised by the Trump administration’s plan to slap import levies on goods allegedly made with forced labour.
A report released from U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer’s office on Tuesday listed dozens of countries, including Canada, as having varying degrees of ineffective enforcement rules around goods made with forced labour.
The report accused Canada and a handful of other countries of failing to “effectively enforce” import bans on such items. As a result, the U.S. government will hit goods not compliant with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement with a 10 per cent levy.
