OTTAWA, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Canadian Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne on Tuesday confirmed that Canada's new countermeasures announced last week in response to the U.S. tariffs on the Canadian auto industry will come into force at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, April 9.
Champagne said Canada would continue to "respond forcefully" to all unwarranted and unreasonable tariffs imposed by the United States on Canadian products.
