The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said he will announce on Monday that the United States will impose 25 percent tariff .
“Any steel that arrives in the United States will have a 25 percent rate,” journalists told Air Force One while flying from Florida to New Orleans to attend the Super Bowl. When asked about aluminum, he replied: “Aluminum,” will also be subject to commercial sanctions.
Trump also reaffirmed that he would announce “reciprocal tariffs”, “probably Tuesday or Wednesday”, which means that the United States would impose import tariffs on products in cases where another country has raised the tariffs of US goods.
“If they are charging us 130 percent and we are not charging them, it will not remain like this,” he told reporters.
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Speaking in Metro Morning, Conquest Manager Steel de Toronto says that local manufacturers need government support to protect jobs as US contracts withdraw.
Trump imposed steel and aluminum tariffs at 25 and 10 percent respectively during his first term in March 2018, using national security as justification.
Initially, Canada received an exemption to these tasks, but was finally affected by tariffs on May 31, 2018. Canada responded with a series of counter-tarifas in American products such as Florida’s orange juice.
Almost a year later, on May 17, 2019, the White House announced that an agreement had been reached to avoid “overthensions” in the Steel and Aluminum supplies of Canada and Mexico, finishing the commercial dispute.
In the first weeks of his second term, which began on January 20, Trump threatened to impose 25 percent tariffs on Canadian and Mexican products on February 1 due to border security problems around fentanyl and illegal immigration, which led the two countries to order reacing lifts.
On February 3, both Canada and Mexico were granted to chasing them of at least 30 days of the threat that was carried out after both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke with Trump about their respective border plans.
The Canada Plan includes $ 1.3 billion in expenses, announced for the first time in December, on improved border security, including patrols with helicopter and the creation of a “fentanyl tsar”, which will work with American counterparts to combat the crisis of toxic drugs.
