US-Canada Trade Collapses as Poll Shows Americans Sour on Tariff Policies
Trade tensions with Canada dominated the day's news. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer confirmed there are currently no negotiations underway with Ottawa after talks collapsed last month, allowing Trump administration tariffs on Canadian goods to take full effect. "It's more their emergency than ours," Greer said, according to The Hill. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney pushed back sharply, urging U.S. officials to "stop doing memes, stop throwing shade, stop trying to be tough and start being serious" about reaching a deal. A new Ipsos/Reuters poll adds political texture to the standoff: 63 percent of Americans oppose the Lake Ontario renaming to "Lake America," and a majority also oppose the additional Canada tariffs, according to The Hill.
On the economics of tariffs more broadly, new research from the Tax Foundation offers a notable revision to conventional wisdom. A recent paper finds that foreign exporters absorbed roughly 47 percent of the 2025 tariff burden — a significantly higher share than earlier studies suggested — meaning U.S. importers and consumers were shielded more than previously thought. The finding could influence ongoing legal and policy debates over who actually bears the cost of import duties.
On the agricultural front, two separate stories highlight friction points in U.S. trade policy. Representative Vern Buchanan is urging the Trump administration to impose seasonal tariff-rate quotas on Mexican produce as part of the ongoing USMCA review, arguing the move is essential to protect Florida's agricultural sector, according to The Hill. Separately, reports of a recalled Argentine beef shipment have circulated alongside Trump's proposed plan to lower domestic beef prices through expanded foreign imports — though The Hill reports the two developments are unrelated.
In immigration and enforcement news, House Democrats on the Homeland Security Committee expressed "strong opposition" to ICE's plans to spend up to $20 million on electric shock gloves for agents, following a $16.7 million contract awarded to Compliant Technologies LLC, per The Hill. In a separate and unusual story, far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos told British host Piers Morgan he is "very ashamed" of his past support for President Trump after being detained and deported by ICE back to the United Kingdom.
Elsewhere, OpenAI pushed back in a court filing against Apple's accusations of trade secret theft, calling the claims "baseless" and pointing to Apple's own internal policies as the source of the dispute, according to The Hill. And U.S. Central Command announced it had begun striking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets in Iran following what the military described as recent IRGC attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and on American service members in the region — a development with potential implications for energy markets and global shipping costs.
What to Watch: The USMCA review process will be a key pressure point in the coming weeks, with Buchanan's push for seasonal produce quotas likely to intensify as the agricultural lobby weighs in. The collapse of U.S.-Canada trade talks leaves no clear timeline for resumption — watch for any back-channel signals from either side. The Strait of Hormuz situation bears close monitoring given its direct link to shipping costs and, by extension, the broader tariff and trade environment. On the legal front, the Tax Foundation's revised tariff burden estimates may surface in ongoing IEEPA refund litigation as parties dispute economic harm.
— The Tariff.news desk