Washington moves from tariffs to outright bans on Canada

Fifty percent tariffs weren't enough. The White House has now published import bans on Canadian dairy, motorcycles and most alcoholic beverages, set to take effect September 29, according to the proclamation posted on whitehouse.gov. This lands days after Ottawa's own retaliatory tariffs, covering more than 700 US products worth roughly $20 billion, came into force. Sapporo has already decided the answer is to stop making beer in Canada altogether, shifting its US-bound alcohol-free production stateside by 2027, as Bloomberg reports. A tariff is a tax you can price around. A ban is a wall, and Canadian dairy cooperatives now have three weeks to find buyers who don't exist yet.