President Donald Trump intensified on Tuesday a commercial war with Canada, imposing a new round of tariffs on steel and aluminum products, threatening additional duties and reiterating a call to Canada to renounce its sovereignty and be part of the United States.
Trump announced retaliation measures in Canada one day after Ontario slapped a 25% surcharge in electricity sent to the United States, saying that another 25% tariff on steel and Canadian aluminum, which raises the total of 50%.
Trump said in a publication about Truth Social that the biggest tariff “will enter into force tomorrow morning, March 12.”
The United States imports more steel and aluminum in Canada than any other country.
In an interview on Tuesday after Trump’s announcement, Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford urged Trump to withdraw tariffs, threatening to further increase the confrontation by closing the electricity of Canada Supplies to the United States.
“That is the last thing I want to do,” Ford told CNBC. “I want to send more electricity to the United States, to our closest allies.”
“Is it a tool in our tool kit? 100%. And how [Trump] He continues to harm Canadian families, the families of Ontario, I will not hesitate to do so, “Ford continued.
Trump also said in his position that “a national emergency in electricity” will declare in the area affected by Canada’s rates. He said that the national emergency “will allow the United States to quickly do what should be done” to respond to the Canada rate, without providing any details about what actions the United States could take.
The earliest Tuesday, Ford urged Trump to reconsider their tariffs, saying they are “causing chaos.”
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Trump’s announcement intensified a commercial war between last week after the United States imposed 25% tariffs on Canada’s imports. In an almost initiated response, Canada slapped a 25% retaliation tariff on the value of $ 30 billion. Tariffs on additional products worth $ 125 billion will enter into force in 21 days, said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Trudeau abruptly criticized tariffs, calling them a “dumb” policy that does not “make sense.”
Tit -for-OT measures revived a commercial war that had been avoided one month earlier, when Trump arrested the implementation of tariffs after reaching an agreement with Canada in the border application.
At the end of February, Trump claimed that illicit drugs such as fentanyl had continued to enter the US. Through Canada, despite the agreements arrived weeks before to address the problem.
President Donald Trump talks to journalists before signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, on February 13, 2025 in Washington.
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Since September, almost all fentanyl seized by the United States arrived through the southern border with Mexico, according to the United States Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). The CBP discovered that less than 1% of the fentanyl on the northern border with Canada.
The reason for the tariffs is based on a false accusation about Canada as an important source of drugs entering the United States, Trudeau said last week.
As part of his announcement on Tuesday, Trump threatened to impose additional retaliation rates to Canada if the duties on US goods remain in place.
“If Canada does not reduce other atrocious and long rates, on April 2, the rates of the cars that enter the US.
He also asked Canada to leave his tariffs on dairy producers, and again said Canada should become the 51st state in the United States.
“The artificial separation line drawn many years ago will finally disappear, and we will have the safer and most beautiful nation anywhere in the world, and its brilliant anthem,” Oh Canada “, will continue playing, but now it will represent a large and powerful state within the largest nation that the world has seen!” Trump said in the publication.
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