U.S. import bans on select Canadian items are set to take effect this week, the latest salvo between the two countries in an ongoing trade war.

The ban is set to come into effect on Tuesday at 12:01 a.m., and will see a full import ban on Canadian-made cheese and other dairy products, as well as alcoholic beverages and Canadian-made motorcycles.

When he signed the executive orders implementing the bans on Sept. 8, Trump said the decision was in response to Canada’s own counter-tariff measures. Those Canadian tariffs went into effect earlier in the day on Sept. 8 and were in retaliation for the president’s 50 per cent tariffs on numerous…

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