Brian Platt

1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Brian Platt

BrightDrop electric vans at the General Motors CAMI Assembly Plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada, on Monday, April 14, 2025. General Motors Co. will temporarily halt production at a factory in Ontario that makes commercial vans, the second Canadian assembly plant to shut this month. (Bloomberg) -- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said his government will allow automakers to import US-manufactured cars and trucks without tariffs, as long as the companies keep making vehicles in Canada.

1 week ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Brian Platt

The Canadian government said it will allow automakers to import a number of US-made cars and trucks without tariffs, as long as the companies keep manufacturing vehicles in Canada. The move will provide some relief to companies including General Motors Co. and Stellantis NV that have assembly plants in Ontario but still bring large quantities of vehicles into Canada from the US. Last week, the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney put retaliatory tariffs on vehicles made in the US.

1 week ago | detroitnews.com | Brian Platt

POLITICSBrian PlattBloombergView Comments On an overcast afternoon on Canada’s east coast, Mark Carney emerged from a pickup truck and stepped carefully in his dress shoes through the muddy lot outside a lumber mill. His hard hat didn’t fit right, pitched forward at an awkward angle; an aide hustled over to fix it before he went inside. Nearby, a man operating a giant mechanical claw snatched logs off a flatbed truck and piled them beside a conveyor belt.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Brian Platt

5 hours agoWhen President Trump recently griped about Europe's distaste for buying American chicken, his comments touched on a long-running and divisive trade spat that's flared up from time to time. Europeans disparage U.S. poultry as "chlorinated chicken," or "Chlorhünchen" in the German press, and see it as …

1 week ago | financialpost.com | Brian Platt

Advertisement 1On an overcast afternoon on Canada’s east coast, Mark Carney emerged from a pickup truck and stepped carefully in his dress shoes through the muddy lot outside a lumber mill. His hard hat didn’t fit right, pitched forward at an awkward angle; an aide hustled over to fix it before he went inside.