USA announces import ban on some Canadian goods

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September 9, 2026, 5:06 am|

Motorcycles, dairy products and alcohol: As of September 29, some products will no longer be allowed to be imported from Canada, according to decrees from US President Trump. So Washington wants to increase the pressure.

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USA announces import ban on some Canadian goods

In the customs dispute between the USA and Canada, the government in Washington has announced import bans on certain products from the neighboring country. Some dairy products, alcoholic beverages and motorcycles will no longer be allowed to enter the United States from September 29, according to executive orders from US President Donald Trump. A high-ranking government official said the goods were worth a single-digit billion dollar range.

With the new measures, Washington is increasing the pressure to get Ottawa to give in to the simmering tariff dispute.

As White House documents show, these include motorcycles and mopeds as well as certain wines, beers, vodka and schnapps. Some dairy products are also affected, such as whey protein, which can help build muscles. Just a few hours earlier, Trump had also ordered the procurement department of US authorities to stop purchasing Canadian products in the future.

Canadian Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc wrote on Platform “If the U.S. is ready to begin discussions, our government will work in good faith and constructively toward a more secure, mutually beneficial trade relationship that fully respects Canadian sovereignty.”

Trump: No more Canadian products in US authorities

US President Donald Trump is increasing the pressure in the tariff dispute between the USA and Canada. He wants to deny Canadian companies access to US government procurement. In a post on Truth Social, the US President instructed his own authorities to take appropriate steps to remove products of Canadian origin from lists. These list companies from which US authorities can obtain products and services through framework agreements.

Trump tied his latest directive to a call for Canada to give U.S. companies, including dairy farmers, equal access to its market. In the customs dispute, the US President repeatedly says that there is a trade imbalance to the detriment of the USA. He also used this argument to impose tariffs on many other countries.

Trump's announcement coincided with the day Canada's counter-tariffs on U.S. imports came into force. According to previous information from Canada, products affected include steel and aluminum, household appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper and electronics.

Trump provokes with a new map of the USA

US President Donald Trump posts a map on his Truth Social platform that shows, among other things, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Mexico and Cuba as part of the USA. The map itself remains uncommented.

Trump repeatedly provokes people with statements about wanting to incorporate other countries. According to Trump, Canada, with which the US President is currently in a customs dispute, could become the 51st state in the USA. Trump has wanted to buy Greenland since last year, and he could supposedly do whatever he wanted with Cuba. He only announced his takeover in March. The fact that he now also has his eye on Iceland is new.

As a result, Iceland summoned the US ambassador. It was made clear to the ambassador on Monday that the post was completely inappropriate, the Icelandic broadcaster RUV quoted the ministry as saying. There was initially no statement from the USA.

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Canada wants to impose counter tariffs on US imports from Tuesday

There is no end in sight to the customs dispute between the USA and neighboring Canada. At the request of the German Press Agency, the Canadian Ministry of Finance confirmed that counter-tariffs on US imports will come into force on Tuesday night (September 8th, 00:01 a.m. local time).

According to previous information from Canada, products affected include steel and aluminum, household appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper and electronics. The tariffs will be up to 50 percent on imports from the United States worth $27.6 billion.

Trade talks between the USA and Canada recently failed. The USA then imposed tariffs of 50 percent on Canadian goods worth around 20 billion US dollars in August - including hockey sticks, furniture, honey and wine. Canada is now following suit.

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US President Donald Trump wants to ban the Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier from selling its aircraft in the USA unless the company produces in the country. "No more sales of Bombardier in the United States! Their products are not good enough!" Trump said on his online platform Truth Social on Monday. If the company wants the US market, it must also manufacture there and stop treating America like a “piggy bank”. A statement from Bombardier was not immediately available. Canada and the USA are currently engaged in a trade dispute.

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There has been no further information about the motive of the perpetrator who was arrested. It also remained unclear whether he owned his weapons legally and was allowed to carry them concealed.

The politician thanked the security forces and wished the injured guests at the event a speedy recovery. There is no place for politically motivated violence in Ohio, her campaign team said. Acton's Republican opponent, Vivek Ramaswamy, also described the incident as "completely unacceptable." Outgoing Gov. Mike DeWine, also a Republican, made similar comments.

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Trump's name idea for the state of New Mexico: "New America"

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The response from the state came promptly. “The name New Mexico is not up for debate,” wrote the state’s governor, Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham, on Platform X. It existed before the United States even existed.

She accused Republican Trump of wanting to distract from the Iran war and the sharp rise in gasoline prices. While the White House wastes time coloring maps, her team in Nuevo México is making progress on things like health care and free child care, she wrote. With the Spanish-language name of the state, the governor probably underlined the deep roots of the Spanish-speaking population and their history in New Mexico.

Trump has already ordered several name changes in his second term since the beginning of 2025. First he renamed the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.” He recently ordered the renaming of Lake Ontario, through which the border with Canada runs, to “Lake America”.

Trump mused as he signed the executive order renaming the border lake: "We have a gulf and a lake. Now all we're missing is an ocean. So maybe we'll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific."

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Despite an ongoing legal dispute, the US state of North Carolina has started mail-in voting for the November midterm elections as planned. The committee responsible for elections announced on Friday on Platform X that it would send out the first documents. Other states are expected to follow suit in the coming days.

Meanwhile, a legal dispute over tightening rules ordered by President Donald Trump continues. The new regulation pushed forward by the Trump administration essentially stipulates that the US Postal Service (USPS) will play a central role in controlling postal voting. States should submit the design of their envelopes for postal voting to the post office for approval. In addition, the postal service should only deliver the documents to citizens who are listed on a voter register provided by the states.

A judge from Boston had previously issued another preliminary injunction against Trump's plans because, in her view, they had little chance of being successful in the main proceedings. She justified this, among other things, by saying that Trump was depriving the states of their constitutional authority to organize elections themselves.

Republicans defend the plans with the argument that they want to prevent alleged election fraud. So far, they have not provided any evidence to support the claim of widespread election fraud. Critics suspect that Trump's motive is that he wants to make voting by mail more difficult and thus disadvantage the Democratic Party, whose voters disproportionately vote by mail.

What will happen to votes already cast if courts approve Trump's rules is unclear. He made it clear during the primaries that a repeat election is not taboo for Trump. At that time, he wanted to implement the redrawing of electoral districts in states where voting had already begun. “If they have to vote twice, then so be it.”

On November 3rd, around a third of the Senate and the entire House of Representatives will be re-elected in the midterms. Because of the narrow majority of Republicans in both chambers of parliament, each individual mandate could decide who ultimately has power in Congress.

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Trump had already made similar comments at the end of August after CIA chief John Ratcliffe made a surprise visit to Moscow. The Wall Street Journal and Politico magazine previously reported that Ratcliffe had warned the Kremlin against attacking NATO allies. At this point, however, the federal government had not yet officially blamed Russia for the attempted attack.

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The United States should have the lowest interest rates in the world: "Lower the key interest rate or I will stop trading with countries with which we have a deficit," Trump posted, apparently addressed to the Federal Reserve. The US labor market returned in August with a strong increase in jobs and, from the perspective of the financial markets, made an imminent interest rate increase by the central bank more likely.

The US Federal Reserve is supposed to ensure full employment and stable prices. It recently left the key interest rate in the range of 3.50 to 3.75 percent. The financial markets are wondering whether the Fed can bring itself to raise interest rates in the middle of the month. Central Bank Chairman Kevin Warsh recently expressed concern about stubborn inflation and at the same time called the labor market "quite stable."

Warsh has only been in office since May and is the successor to Jerome Powell, whom Trump had repeatedly harshly criticized and called a "loser" because of his supposedly too tight monetary policy. On the other hand, he gave Warsh numerous advance praises. Trump had also stated that the new Fed chief would have to follow his ideas. If Warsh had declared that he wanted to raise interest rates, "he wouldn't have gotten the job," said the US President.

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