Industry Minister Mélanie Joly speaks before a meeting with Canada's Ocean Supercluster at The PIER in Halifax on July 15, 2025. Photo by Ryan Taplin - The Chronicle Herald

Industry Minister Melanie Joly says Canada can do more to counter foreign steel dumping, as U.S. tariffs batter the Canadian sector and make it vulnerable to being flooded by cheap imports from overseas.

Canada has put 25 per cent tariffs on Chinese steel and last month tightened its tariff-rate quotas to further restrict imports from countries with which it doesn’t have a free-trade deal. The government also added a 25 per cent surtax on steel products from any country, except for the U.S., that contain steel melted and poured in China.

“But I’m also very much aware that we have to do more,” Joly said Thursday

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