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OTTAWA: Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Saturday \u200bthat starting September 8 Canada would impose tariffs on imports from \u200cthe United States across a raft of sectors in retaliation for President Donald Trump\u2019s new 50% tariffs that came into effect from midnight.<\/strong><\/p>\n After \u200bdays of intense negotiations, the two countries failed to \u200breach a trade deal late Friday, worsening an already delicate relationship \u2060between the two long-term trade partners and allies and \u200bcomplicating the future of a highly successful continental free trade pact \u200bcalled the U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement.<\/span><\/p>\n Trump\u2019s new tariffs hit a slew of sectors including wine, furniture, dairy products, cement, clothing, fishing rods, hockey equipment and \u200bcover some $20 billion of Canadian exports south of the border. \u200bThese duties do not give exemption to Canadian products under the USMCA, \u200cwhich \u2060have shielded most of Canadian exports to the U.S in the last 18 months.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cCanada will match Washington\u2019s new tariffs dollar for dollar in order to protect Canadian workers, farmers, families, \u200band businesses,\u201d Carney said \u200bat a news \u2060conference.<\/span><\/p>\n These retaliatory tariffs will hit sectors such as steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and \u200bpaper, and electronics and will also include products \u200bcurrently \u2060subject to the unjustified Section 232 and 338 tariffs, Carney said in a spirited speech from the Parliament building in Ottawa.<\/span><\/p>\n READ MORE: US, Canada fail to reach trade pact to avert Trump tariffs<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n