Canadian new leader Mark Carney calls Trump’s 25% of Tariffs of a car with a “direct attack” to his country: “He wants to break us so that American can own us”
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Wednesday that the car tariffs of US President Donald Trump were “direct attack” on his country and thattrade warharms Americans, noting thatThe confidence of an American consumeris on a perennial low.
Trump said earlier on Wednesday that he puts 25%Automatic import tariffsAnd, emphasized his intention, he stated, “This is permanent.”
“This is a very direct attack,” Carney replied. “We will defend our workers. We will defend our companies. We will defend our country.”
Carney said he should see the details of Trump’s executive commands before he retrieved. He called him unjustified and said he would leave the election campaign on Thursday to go to Ottawa to chair with his special board of cable relations with US relationships.
Carney has previously announced the “Strategic Response Fund” in the amount of $ 2 billion ($ 1.4 billion) that will protect the Canadian car affairs affected by Trump’s tariffs.
Autos are the second largest export of Canada. Carney noted that the sector directly employs 125,000 Canadians and almost another 500,000 in related industries.
“Canada will be there for the car,” he said.
Trumppreviously approved aone -month exemptionOn his stiff new tariffs about imports from Mexico and Canada for American car manufacturers.
PresidentHe has now fallen into the global trade war-all while again, again, new levies continue to escalate uncertainty.
The conference committee reported on Tuesday that his consumer confidence index had dropped 7.2 points to 92.9, the fourth decline of a monthly and the lowest reading of January 2021.
“His trade war harms American consumers and workers and will harm more. I see that US consumer trust is on many years of low,” Carney said earlier while he was a campaign in Windsor, Ontario on the eve of Kanada 28 election.
Increasing a car import tax that starts in April means that car manufacturers could face higher costs and lower sales.
Trump has previously placed 25% of tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum and threatens the main tariffs on all Canadian products – as well as all US trade partners – April 2.
“He wants to break us so that America can own us,” Carney said. “And this will never happen because we just don’t care about ourselves, we look out for each other.”
Carney,Former double central banker in Canada and the UK, he made earlier comments while in the campaign on the background of the Ambassador Bridge, which is considered to be the most prominent American Canadian border crossing, carrying 25% of all trade between the two countries. He plays a particularly important role in car production.
Carney said the bridge carries $ 140 billion every year with Canadian dollars ($ 98 billion) of goods and CA $ 400 million ($ 281 million) per day.
“Now these are numbers and jobs and salaries that depend on the one,” Carney said. “The relationship between Canada and the United States has changed. We haven’t changed it.”
In the automatic sector, the parts can move forward several times over and back across the border with Canada-US before being fully assembled in Ontario or Michigan.
Prime Minister Ontarioa Doug Ford, whose province has a majority of Canadian auto industry, said that the car plants on both sides of the border will be closed at the same time if tariffs teaching.
“The president calls him release. I call it a day breaks for US workers. I know that President Trump likes to tell people to” dismiss! “I didn’t think he thought of us car,” when he said that, “Ford said.
Trump hasdeclared a trade warIn his northern neighbor and continues to invite Canada to become 51.
The Canadians floated Trump repeatedly at Carney’s choice in Kitchener, Ontario.
The new prime minister, swore in March 14th, March 14, still did not have a phone call with Trump. It is unusual that the US President and the Canadian Prime Minister go so long without talking after the new leader assumes his duty.
“It would be appropriate for the President and I to speak given the action he took. I’m sure it would happen soon,” Carney said.
Opposition conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said Tariffs would hurt US car workers just as he would damage Canadian car workers.
“The message to President Trump should carry it,” Poilievre said. “He changed his mind before. He did it twice, put them on, removed them. We can doubt that it can be repeated.”
This story is originally shown on Fortune.com
