The Liberal government is facing pushback after exempting a series of Chinese and U.S. steel and aluminum imports from retaliatory tariffs.

A new order-in-council shows Ottawa has now granted dozens of Canadian companies relief so they don’t have to pay the price for retaliatory tariffs on specific products that businesses argued are in short supply or needed under existing contracts.

The Canadian Steel Producers Association is firing back.

“We are disappointed to see a broad exception to tariffs was given to U.S. producers for another two months, while we suffer from lack of access to their market,” its CEO and president Catherine Cobden told CBC News.

Cobden says she's still assessing the decision, but called it “inconceivable” that Canada appears to have granted a series of new exem

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