Safeguard Legislation Moves Forward to Allow Canadian Import Surge Protection
Legislation aimed an increasing Canada's ability to use safeguard measures to limit import surges "recently cleared the House of Commons and the Senate, and received Royal Assent," said Daniel Kiselbach, a lawyer at Miller Thomson, in a blog post. "The…
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provisions in the enactment lift a two-year moratorium on the imposition of safeguard measures on imports that have previously been subject to safeguard measures," he said. Part of a recent agreement between the U.S. and Canada that led to to lifting of tariffs on steel and aluminum was that the countries may impose tariffs in response to import surges of the metals (see 1905170031).