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.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is currently in Paris before a high -profile artificial intelligence summit. He did not answer the questions of the journalists about the announcement of the Trump rate while entering his hotel after a dinner with the French president Emmanuel Macron.
A senior Canadian government official told CBC News that they have seen Trump’s news and have no additional information at this time. The source also said they will wait to see something official in writing.
CBC News has communicated with Global Affairs Canada to comment.
Speaking in Metro Morning, Conquest Manager Steel de Toronto says that local manufacturers need government support to protect jobs as US contracts withdraw.
The provinces criticize Trump’s announcement
Some provincial leaders, such as the Prime Minister of Ontario, Doug Ford, and Quebec Prime Minister François Legault criticized Trump’s tariff announcement for creating economic uncertainty.
On Sunday night, Ford said in a publication on social networks: “These are the next four years. Changing posts and constant chaos, putting our economy at risk.”
Later on the day, Legault published in French on social networks and said Trump’s announcement “shows that we must begin to renegotiate our free trade agreement with the United States as soon as possible and not wait for the planned review by 2026. We must put An end of this uncertainty. “
The Canadian-Usxico (Cusma) agreement, which is the trilateral of the trade pact to which it refers in its position, must be reviewed in 2026. Trump promised during the election campaign last year that he would renegotiate the agreement.
Trump has previously denied the use of tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods to promote an early renegotiation of the agreement.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, dismissed the suggestion that he is using the threat of tariffs to boost an early renegotiation of the Mexican and Canada Mexico Agreement. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he is prepared to return the blow with dollars in dollars over US goods.
CEO of the Association of Steel Producers reacts
Catherine Cobden, president and executive director of the Canadian Association of Steel Producers, said she is concerned about promised rates, but said the details have not yet been confirmed.
“If these tariffs continue, they will be devastating but challenging on both sides of the border,” News Network told CBC Sunday night.
Cobden said that Canada’s main work should be to obtain an exemption from potential tariffs, and expects the Canadian government to connect with the Trump administration to highlight “the highly integrated nature of our business.”
If Canada cannot obtain an exemption, he said, there is a “very strong need to respond hard and fast with his own retaliation rates.”
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 the persecuted of at least 30 days of the threat that took place after both 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.
Canada ‘Not viable as a country’: Trump
During his conversation with journalists on Air Force One, Trump once again criticized Canada for his defense expense and reiterated his desire to make Canada the State 51.
“They do not pay much for the army, and the reason why they do not pay much is that they assume we will protect them,” Trump said. “That is not an assumption that they can do, because why are we protecting another country?”
The president of the United States also said that Canada “is not viable as a country.”
Trump’s comments on Canada become an American state, once described as jokes by some Canadian officials, they now seem to be matters of laughter for Trudeau and other Canadian politicians.
After his public comments at the Economic Summit of Canada-United States, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told business and labor leaders that the comments of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, on making Canada the State 51 real”. Trudeau’s comments were heard on the speakers.
At an economic summit of Canada-United States in Toronto on Friday, the prime minister told a business leaders room that Trump’s threat to Annexar Canada is “something real” motivated by his desire to take advantage of the country’s critical minerals.
In an interview on Sunday at the NBC News’ Meeting of the Press, Trump’s National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, said he does not believe that the president has “plans to invade Canada”, but there are “many people” to who like United States and does not like Trudeau’s government.
On Friday, the Minister of Internal Commerce, Anita Anand, told journalists that “there will not be a disaster with the 49th parallel.”
