Geopolitics and Energy: Robert Johnston Discusses US-Canada Tariffs and Their Impacts

Relief (potentially) in sight – The availability of remission under the Canadian retaliatory tariff regime (Part II) - Stewart McKelvey

By Michelle Chai & Graeme Hiebert In Part I of this series, we discussed the remission guidelines and template for submissions published by the Department of Finance Canada (the “Guidelines”). While the Guidelines provide a useful framework for applicants, they contain terminology that applicants may find vague or uninformative.  For example, what is the threshold for when a good cannot be “reasonably” procured from a non-U.S. source? What const…

Geopolitics and Energy: Robert Johnston Discusses US-Canada Tariffs and Their Impacts

Let’s start with a bit of an introduction to your role at the Center on Global Energy Policy. I lead the research team at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University in New York. We’re part of the School of International and Public Affairs, so our focus is really on the intersection of geopolitics, technology markets, and energy security, but from a global perspective. Of course, these days, you can’t talk about energy security wit…

While on Wall Street the memory of “Liberation Day” is rapidly fading, on Main Street, the symbol of commerce and small business in the US, the problem caused by the full tariffs is far from over.

Tariff Retaliations | Frontier Centre For Public Policy

Despite the aggressive rhetoric leading up to and during the recent election campaign, Prime Minister Mark Carney quietly abandoned retaliatory tariffs to defend Canadian economic interests against American tariffs. […]

Tariffs retaliating on the US a Global Recession

Let’s Go Tariff for Tariff Many people have gone through the never-ending cycle of hitting your sibling back after they hit you, and then hitting you again, so you hit them again, and the cycle keeps going and going and going. Well, that’s now happening with the U.S. and its trade partners, especially China. Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump announced after being sworn into office that he was planning to create tariffs. He then followed thro…