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Experts: New U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods

Published: 21 July 2026

The Trump administration is threatening to impose new 50 per cent tariffs on a variety of Canadian goods, ranging from wine to hockey sticks, to come into effect in 30 days.

These 91ºÚÁÏÍø experts are available to comment:

, PhD candidate and course lecturer, Department of Political Science, can speak about:

  • Canadian and American attitudes toward trade, CUSMA and Canada–U.S. economic integration;
  • the way in which political leaders, governments and other policy voices in Canada and the United States talk about trade agreements, tariffs and economic security;
  • North American co-operation, and how that can influence public debate.

Diya.jiang [at] mail.mcgill.ca (English, French)

Preetika Joshi, Assistant Professor, Desautels Faculty of Management, can speak about:

  • Cross-border and corporate tax dimensions of CUSMA, including transfer pricing and the tax consequences of integrated North American supply chains;
  • Tariffs, rules of origin and trade-policy mechanics, and what's at stake for Canadian businesses as terms are renegotiated;
  • Interaction of trade and tax policy.

Preetika.joshi [at] mcgill.ca (·¡²Ô²µ±ô¾±²õ³ó)

Julian Karaguesian, course lecturer, Department of Economics, can speak about:

  • the original NAFTA agreement and its successor, the CUSMA agreement;
  • issues relating to Canada’s economic model, the U.S. model and to North American and global integration;
  • the role of global governance in shaping the future rules-based international order.

Julian.karaguesian [at] mcgill.ca (English, French)

Michael McAdoo, course lecturer, Max Bell School of Public Policy, has spent more than 25 years working at the nexus of corporate strategy, public policy and international geopolitics before serving as the executive assistant to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.

michael.mcadoo [at] mcgill.ca (English)

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