US President Donald Trump said that on Monday he would announce that the United States will impose 25 percent tariffs for all steel and aluminum imports, including Canada and Mexico – a step that caused some provincial ministers to criticize.
“Every steel that comes to the United States will have a tariff of 25 percent,” he said to reporters Sunday on Air Force One when he flew from Florida to New Orleans to take part in the Super Bowl. When he was asked about aluminum, he replied: “Aluminum also” is subject to trade punishment.
Trump also confirmed that he would announce “mutual tariffs” – “Probably Tuesday or Wednesday” -, which means that the USA would impose products in cases where another country raised tasks for US goods.
“If you calculate 130 percent and we do not charge you anything, it won’t stay that way,” he told reporters.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is currently in Paris in front of a top -class summit for artificial intelligence. He did not answer the questions of the reporters about Trump’s tariff announcement when he went to his hotel with the French President Emmanuel Macron after dinner.
On Sunday evening, the Minister of Industry François Philippe Champagne said in a social media post that “Canadian steel and aluminum support in the United States through defense, shipbuilding and car”.
“We will continue to stand up for Canada, our workers and our industries,” said Champagne.
A high -ranking Canadian government official announced CBC News that they had seen Trump’s news and had no additional information at that time. The source also said that they would wait to see something official in writing.
CBC News has contacted the Ministry of Finance to get a comment.
According to the Metro Morning, Toronto’s Conquest Steel manager needs that local manufacturers need state support to protect jobs when US contracts are drawn.
Provinces criticize Trump’s announcement
Some provincial leaders, such as the Prime Minister of Ontario, Doug Ford and Quebec Premier François Legault, criticized Trump’s tariff announcement on the creation of economic uncertainty.
On Sunday evening, Ford said in a social media contribution: “These are the next four years. Shifting goal posts and constant chaos that endanger our economy.”
Legault later published in French on social media and said Trump’s announcement “shows that we will negotiate our free trade agreement with the United States as soon as possible and do not have to wait for the revision planned for 2026. Uncertainty. “
The State-Mexico Agreement (Cusma) triggered by Canada, which is about the trilateral trading pact legault related in its post, must be checked in 2026. Trump promised last year’s election campaign that he would negotiate the agreement.
Trump previously contested the use of tariffs for Canadian and Mexican goods in order to promote early renegotiation of the agreement.
US President Donald Trump rejected the proposal that he used the threat from tariffs to advance an early negotiation of the Agrees triggered by Canada on the states of the Mexico. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was ready to sit back with dollar-for-dollar tariffs for American goods.
CEO from steel producer Association reacts
Catherine Cobden, President and CEO of Canadian Steel Producer Association, said she was concerned about the promised tariffs, but found that details can still be confirmed.
“If these tariffs proceed, they will be devastating on both sides of the border but challenging,” she told CBC News Network on Sunday evening.
According to Cobden, Canada’s top task should be to receive an exception to the potential tariffs, and she hopes that the Canadian government will be connected to the Trump government in order to emphasize “the highly integrated nature of our business”.
If Canada cannot get a liberation, it is a “very strong need to react hard and quickly with its own retaliatory tariffs”.
US President Donald Trump said he would announce 25 percent tariffs for all steel and aluminum imports, including those from Canada and Mexico. Catherine Cobden, the President and CEO of Canadian Steel Producer Association, says that Canada’s main goal should be to exclude from the tariffs because they will have “devastating effects” on both sides of the border.
In his first term in March 2018, Trump imposed steel and aluminum tariffs at 25 and 10 percent and used national security as justification.
Canada originally received an exception for these tasks, but it was ultimately hit by the tariffs on May 31, 2018. Canada reacted with a number of counterplants for American products such as Florida Orange Juice.
Almost a year later, on May 17, 2019, the White House announced that a deal had been achieved to prevent “diseases” in the steel and aluminum supply from Canada and Mexico and end the trade dispute.
In the first few weeks of his second term, which started retaliation on January 20.
On February 3, Both Canada and Mexico Reprieves received at least 30 days from the threat after both Trudeau and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum talked to Trump about their respective border plans.
Canada’s plan comprises expenditure of 1.3 billion US dollars, which were first announced in December about improved border security, including patrols with helicopters, and the creation of a “fentanyl tender”, which with US colleagues combat toxic drug crisis will work together.
Canada “not viable as a country”: Trump
During his conversation with reporters on Air Force One, Trump criticized Canada again because of his defense spending and repeated his wish to make Canada the 51st state.
“You don’t pay much for the military, and the reason why you don’t pay a lot, assume that we will protect you,” said Trump. “This is not an assumption that you can make because why do we protect another country?”
The US President also said that Canada was “not viable as a country”.
Trump’s comments that Canada becomes a US state that was once described by some Canadian officials as jokes seem to be not a laughing affair for Trudeau and other top Canada politicians.
According to his public comments at the economic summit in Canada and the USA, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the managers that US President Donald Trump’s comments on Canada were “a real thing”. Trudeau’s comments could be heard about the loudspeakers.
At a CANADA-US economic summit on Friday in Toronto, the prime minister told a space of managers that Trump’s threat to Annex Canada was “a real thing”, which is motivated by his wish to use the critical minerals of the country.
In an interview on Sunday about NBC News’ Meet the Press, Trump’s national security advisor Mike Waltz said that he does not think states and don’t like Trudeau’s governance.
On Friday, the internal Minister of Commerce Anita Anita Anand reporters said that “the 49th parallel would not be messed up.”
