🇨🇦 Trump's new U.S. customs rules could upend Canadian exports

Duty-free under CUSMA, then suddenly staring at 50 per cent duties and a customs crackdown anyway. That is the reality reported, and it says plenty about Canada’s position: totally exposed, structurally dependent, and still pretending integration is sovereignty. Washington tightens importer registration, bonding, disclosure, vetting, and enforcement, and Ottawa’s export class gets to discover what happens when your entire model rests on someone else’s border policy.

The experts quoted insist this is global, not about Canada. Fine. That almost makes it worse. Canada gets hit hardest not because anyone singled us out, but because our rulers spent years hollowing out self-reliance and calling it modern trade. If Canadian firms can be treated like foreign importers of record, blocked from simplified entries, and forced into heavier compliance costs, then the fairy tale of secure North American access is exactly that. One executive order in Washington, and Canadian business is scrambling for lawyers, brokers, bonds, and permission slips. Sovereign country on paper, branch plant in practice.

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