USA marks the first day of the new free trade agreement by imposing tariffs

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Canada welcomes U.S. decision to drop duties on aluminum imports

Just before the countervailing duties were about to go into effect.

Freeland stressed that today's development was not a negotiated agreement with the U.S. and said that the American administration acted "unilaterally." Canada does not accept the imposition of quotas, she said.