US President Donald Trump said he would announce on Monday that the United States would impose 25 percent of tariffs on all imports of steel and aluminum, including from Canada and Mexico – a move that encouraged the sharp criticism of some provincial premiere.
“Every steel coming to the United States will have 25 percent of tariffs,” he told reporters on Sunday in the Air Force, he was flying from Florida to New Orleans to attend Super Bowl. Asked about aluminum, he replied: “Aluminum, too,” he is subject to trade sentences.
Trump has also confirmed that he will announce the “reciprocal tariff” – “probably Tuesday or Wednesday” – which means that the US would impose import duties on products in cases where the other country charged duties on US goods.
“If they charge us 130 percent and we don’t charge them, they won’t stay that way,” he told reporters.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is currently in Paris in front of a High artificial intelligence Summit. He did not answer the questions of a journalist about Trump’s tariff announcement as he entered his hotel after dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron.
Sunday night, said the François-Philippe UA industry minister Post on social media that “Canadian steel and aluminum support key industries in the US from defense, shipbuilding and cars”.
“We will continue to advocate Canada, our workers and our industry,” Champagne said.
The Canadian government official told CBC News that they saw the news from Trump and that they had no additional information at the moment. The source also said that he would wait to see something officially in writing.
CBC News addressed the Ministry of Finance for comment.
Talking about Metro Morning, Toronto’s manager of the conquest of Steel says that local manufacturers need national support to protect jobs while US contracts withdraw.
Provinces criticize Trump’s announcement
Some provincial leaders, such as Prime Minister Ontario Doug Ford and Prime Minister Quebec François Legault, criticized Trump’s tariff announcement to create economic insecurity.
On Sunday night, Ford said in a post on social media: “This is the next four years. Moving the goal and permanent chaos, which has put our economy in danger.”
Later during the day, Legault posted in Social Media in France and said that Trump’s announcement “shows that we must start negotiating our free trade agreement with the United States as soon as possible and not wait for an audit planned for 2026. uncertainty. “
The State-Mexico Agreement with Canada (Cusma), which is a trilateral trading pact of Legault, to which he referred in his post, must be reviewed in 2026. Trump promised to negotiate an agreement during last year’s election campaign.
Trump has previously denied to use tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods to encourage early negotiation of an agreement.
US President Donald Trump has rejected a proposal to use tariff threat to encourage early negotiations of the United Canada State-Mexico agreement. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was ready to hit the dollar dollar tariff on US goods.
The Executive Director of the Steel Association is reacting
Catherine Cobden, President and Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Manufacturers of Steel, said she was worried about the promised tariffs, but noted that the details were yet to be confirmed.
“If these tariffs teaching, they will be devastating but challenging on both sides of the border,” she told CBC News Network on Sunday night.
Cobden said that the highest job of Canada should be an exemption from the potential tariffs, and hopes that the Canadian government is associated with Trump’s administration to emphasize the “highly integrated nature of our business.”
If Canada cannot get an exemption, she said, there is “a very strong need to respond strongly and quickly to our retributed tariffs.”
US President Donald Trump said he would announce 25 percent of tariffs on all imports of steel and aluminum, including those from Canada and Mexico. Catherine Cobden, President and Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Manufacturers of Steel, says the main goal of Canada should be excluded from the tariff because she will have ‘devastating effects’ on both sides of the border.
During his first term in March 2018, Trump imposed tariffs from steel and aluminum at 25 and 10 percent, respectively, using national security as a justification.
Canada initially received an exemption from these duties, but the tariff eventually hit her on May 31, 2018, Canada responded with a series of counter-tarifs on American products such as Florida Orange Jica.
Almost a year later, on May 17, 2019, the White House announced that a contract had been reached to prevent “rush” in the supplies of steel and aluminum from Canada and Mexico, ending a trade dispute.
In the first weeks of his second term, which began on January 20, Trump threatened to impose 25 percent of tariffs on Canadian and Mexican products on February 1st due to the issue of border security about fental and illegal immigration, which prompted two countries to order an order retribution.
February 3, both Canada and Mexico approved at least 30 days from the threat that was realized after Trudeau and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke with Trump about their border plans.
The Canadian plan includes $ 1.3 billion in consumption, first announced in December, about improved border security, including patrols by helicopters and creating “Fentanil Cara”, who will work with American colleagues in the fight against toxic drug crisis.
Canada ‘is not sustainable as country’: Trump
During the interview with the Air Force journalists, Trump once again criticized Canada for his defense expenses and repeated his desire to become 51.
“They don’t pay much for the army, and the reason they don’t pay much is that they assume we will protect them,” Trump said. “This is not the assumption I can make, because why protect the other country?”
The US president also said Canada “is not sustainable as a country.”
Trump’s comments on Canada become an American state, Once described as jokes Some Canadian officials are now allowed to laugh at Trudeauu and other top Canadian politicians.
After his public objections at Canada-US economic summit, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told business and laborer leaders that comments from US President Donald Trump to become Kanada 51. The “Right Thing” state. Trudeau’s comments were heard over the speakers.
At the Economic Samote of Canada-US in Toronto on Friday, Prime Minister said in a business leaders’ room That Trump’s threat to the attachment of Canada is “the right thing” motivated by his desire to enter the critical minerals of the country.
In an interview on Sunday at NBC News’ Meet The Press, Trump’s National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, he said he did not think the president had “plans for invasion of Canada”, but there are “many people” who love United states and dislike Trudeau’s management.
On Friday, the Minister of Internal Store Anita Anand told reporters that “there will be no clutter with 49. Parallel”.
