New Delhi, Aug. 26 -- The trade negotiations that Canada and the United States began in July ended Friday with no agreement. Ottawa's answer arrived Tuesday. Starting September 8, Canadian consumers who buy American-made cosmetics, smartphones, kitchen appliances, and steel will pay 50 per cent more for the privilege. Furniture from American factories, clothing sourced from US distributors, aluminum coils from Pennsylvania mills - all of it repriced for a Canada that will no longer accept asymmetrical tariff terms.

roughly 700 American products calibrated to mirror Washington's own duties rate for rate, sector for sector. The government called it the Canada Strong Response Plan.

Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne framed the lo...