{"id":16253,"date":"2018-04-03T05:30:15","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T05:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=16253"},"modified":"2018-04-05T21:40:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T21:40:24","slug":"canada-will-react-tariff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/business\/management-leadership\/canada-will-react-tariff\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada will react against any tariff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ontario fires back at New York state\u2019s \u2018Buy American\u2019 protectionist policy.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Ontario workers and businesses are threatened by protectionist U.S. actions I have no choice but to respond. I will not let New York, or any other state, tilt the field in their favour without taking appropriate action,\u201d Premier Kathleen Wynne said.<\/p>\n

In advance of the looming New York law, the Ontario government early in March passed Bill 194, the \u201cFairness in Procurement Act,\u201d giving it the power to restrict contracts with and the use of suppliers from New York when dealing with government entities here, \u201cif New York refused to back down,\u201d Wynne said.<\/p>\n

Leader Vic Fedeli, party\u2019s finance critic, blamed the Liberals for \u201cOntario losing its competitive advantage to the United States,\u201d and called the retaliatory move \u201ca last-ditch attempt to distract from their record of costing Ontario more than 300,000 manufacturing jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

MPP Taras Natyshak, the NDP\u2019s international trade critic, accused Wynne of \u201cgrandstanding.\u201d<\/p>\n

New York\u2019s new rules mandate the use of American-made iron in some government construction work, amid concerns there that cheaper imports are adversely affecting American firms.<\/p>\n

Ontario\u2019s measures also take aim at government entities and suppliers using iron from New York.<\/p>\n

Wynne also said Ontario is waiting on a similar situation in Texas, where \u201cadvocacy efforts are ongoing and we are hopeful for a positive outcome \u2026 we are of the position that the Texas rules do not apply to Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis whole protectionist movement in the United States \u2014 if we let the Americans push us around, then they will continue to go further and further,\u201d said Walid Hejazi, a professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, cited by the Toronto Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hejazi said that while the New York rules are narrow, they come with the promise of a group that will look at expansion to other sectors. \u201cRight now, it\u2019s for structural steel, but they may think about moving it to concrete, cement and aluminum,\u201d Hejazi said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to make them understand we are not going to sit idly by and let them do that and \u2026 retaliate in some way so that U.S. companies understand this is going to hurt them, too,\u201d concluded the academic.<\/p>\n

Ontario\u2019s Chamber of Commerce has urged more diplomacy. President Rocco Rossi said \u201cpositive measures,\u201d are preferred, such as the memorandum of understanding signed last week between Wynne and Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb and the chamber\u2019s own release of joint statements with its counterparts in several U.S. states promoting trade ties.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one wins a trade war,\u201d Rossi said to the newspaper The MetroNews<\/a>. \u201cI think we have to play the long game here, and we have to continue to push for cooler heads to prevail.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the past year, Wynne has met with 37 U.S. governors to reinforce the importance of cross-border economic partnerships.<\/p>\n

About $400-billion worth of trade is conducted between Ontario and the U.S. each year, and Ontario is the biggest customer of more than half of all U.S. states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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