Canada vowed to respond with retaliatory tariffs if President Donald Trump slaps additional levies on Canadian goods as part of an expected announcement of sweeping new tariffs on Wednesday. "We will respond to additional measures,

WASHINGTON (AP) — With President Donald Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day” of tariff implementation fast approaching, Senate Democrats are putting Republican support for some of those plans to the test by forcing a vote to nullify the emergency declaration that underpins the tariffs on Canada.

President Trump on Tuesday bashed Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) over a resolution that would undercut the basis for tariffs on Canada and urged Republicans to vote against it. Kaine has put forward a

The initial justification for the off-again, on-again tariffs on Canada and Mexico — as well as tariffs on China, which are in effect — cited what the White House said was these countries’ failure at “stopping poisonous fentanyl and other drugs from flowing into our country.

A Senate resolution to end the emergency declaration enabling tariffs against Canada is likley to have enough Republican votes to pass the chamber.

President Trump sowed confusion Tuesday as he continued to threaten hefty tariffs on imported goods even as White House advisers admitted they don’t know the details. With what Trump has

What Trump ultimately decides to announce on tariffs will be “effective immediately,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday. That is logistically dubious, but if that is the case, other nations would have little time to negotiate and could respond by immediately imposing countermeasures such as retaliatory tariffs.

Canadian authorities have reported more illegal drugs flowing from the U.S. into Canada than the other way around.