A self-imposed deadline for a new US-Canada trade deal came and went on Friday. So what happens next for these two deeply entwined neighbours? Canada and the US have been locked in a tariff war for six months and,

Trump has justified tariffs on goods from Canada, the top U.S. export market, by accusing it of failing to stop the cross-border flow of fentanyl, even though U.S. government data shows Canada accounts for only 1% of the fentanyl that enters the United States.

As the trade war has progressed, the Canadian government has imposed 25 per cent counter-tariffs of its own, beginning March 4 with a slate of levies on $30 billion in U.S. imports, followed by another $29.8 billion on March 13.