How Canadian and American companies are getting ‘creative’ to avoid passing off tariff costs to customers

The U.S. tariffs that were implemented last week add an additional 50 per cent tariff to targeted Canadian-made goods being shipped into the U.S. -- which, in practice, should be paid by the American importer to the U.S. government.

Households and businesses have become used to tariffs impacting the cost of living for more than year now, so what will change now?

Canada is set to impose retaliatory tariffs on $27.6 billion worth of U.S. goods starting Sept. 8. For some Canadian businesses, these counter-tariffs stand to drive up the costs of the things they make, which could be another difficult blow for companies at a time when many are already impacted by the ongoing trade wa