The Globe and Mail: According to the sources, American negotiators have opposed lowering those tariffs on lumber and proposed reducing the tariffs on autos to 15 per cent – a number that is too high for Canada to accept.
…Ottawa, meanwhile, is preparing plans for retaliation if the White House makes good on its threat to slam new levies on US$20-billion worth of Canadian goods on Wednesday, one of those sources and a different source confided…