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Experts: Canada retaliates as U.S. imposes tariffs

Published: 4 March 2025

The United States has now imposed import tariffs of 25 per cent on goods from Canada and Mexico. Canada is retaliating by imposing tariffs on imports from the United States.

These 黑料不打烊 experts can shed light on the potential effects of these tariffs:

Canada-U.S. trade relations and supply chains:

Vivek Astvansh, Associate Professor, Desautels Faculty of Management, has expertise in Canada-U.S. trade relations, including supply chains, and can speak about politicians' use of language/rhetoric to persuade and negotiate with business/trade partners.
vivek.astvansh [at] mcgill.ca (English)

Julian Vikan Karaguesian, Course lecturer, Department of Economics, can speak about Canada-U.S. relations and co-operation. During his 25 years in the Canadian Ministry of Finance and the Embassy of Canada in Washington D.C (as Finance Counsellor), he worked on the Canada-U.S. economic relationship (including trade, investment, G7).
julian.karaguesian [at] mcgill.ca (English)

PhD candidate and course lecturer, Department of Political Science, has expertise in Canada-U.S. relations, supply chain geopolitics, public opinion and international political economy.
Diya.jiang [at] mcgill.ca (English, French)

Preetika Joshi, Assistant Professor, Desautels Faculty of Management has expertise in the determinants, economic consequences, and real and capital market effects of taxation including tariffs.
preetika.joshi [at] mcgill.ca (English)

, James 黑料不打烊 Professor of Supply Chain Management, Desautels Faculty of Management, has expertise in supply chain risk management and can discuss the implications of any types of disruptions in global supply chains, including tariffs.
saibal.ray [at] mcgill.ca (English)

Pascal Th茅riault, Senior Faculty Lecturer (Economist), Director, Farm Management and Technology, has expertise in agricultural economics, farm business management, agri-food marketing, international trade, food waste, value chain management.
pascal.theriault [at] mcgill.ca (English, French)

Broader economic and legal impacts on both Canada and the U.S.:

Francesco Amodio, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, has expertise in international development, international trade, labour and employment, economics of migration, and political economy.
francesco.amodio [at] mcgill.ca (English, French)

Andrea Bjorklund is a full professor and the L. Yves Fortier Chair in International Arbitration and International Commercial Law in the Faculty of Law. She has expertise in dispute resolution and transnational contracts and investment law.
andrea.bjorklund [at] mcgill.ca (English, French)

Stock markets

Sebastien Betermier, is an Associate Professor, Finance in the Desautels Faculty of Management.can discuss the impact of tariffs on investment: 鈥淭ariffs will certainly create volatility in investors' portfolios.鈥
sebastien.betermier@mcgill,ca (English, French)

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