The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said Monday that he will advance with a 25 percent tariff for most Canada imports next week, saying that the country has started the United States for too long and that it is time to stop it.
Speaking to journalists at a white house conference with the French president, Trump said the work to implement these rates is “to advance very quickly.”
“The rates advance in time, according to time. This is an abuse that took place for many, many years. Tariffs will advance, yes, and we will invent a lot of territory,” Trump said.
Earlier this month, Trump threatened to raise a 25 percent devastating rate on Canadian goods, except energy, which would apply to 10 percent, reaching an executive order to implement the regime.
Economists and experts have said tariffs that have the potential to immerse the Canadian economy in a recession and lead to serious economic interruptions for industries throughout the country.
The rate will make some Canadian goods less competitive because US importers will have to pay the 25 percent tax to take them to the United States if Trump’s plan comes into force.
These aggregate costs could be transmitted to US consumers, exceeding the price of everything, from car parts and fertilizers to pharmaceutical products and paper products.
Trump finally retired after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agreed to deploy more resources on the border to reduce drugs and migrants that cross the United States.
Now, Trump pointed out that the pause will be built around March 4 as planned despite the significant improvement on the border with the number of migrants stopped and the amount of drugs seized in chopped.
In response to a journalist’s question at a press conference with French president Emmanuel Macron, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, said the deadline of next week to impose tariffs on Canada and Mexico is ‘on time’ , reiterating its statement that the United States has been used ‘for’ for ‘many, many years.
Trump has also threatened with additional 25 percent tariffs for certain industries, including steel, aluminum and car imports. The White House has said previously that these rates (the steel and aluminum levies will enter into force on March 12, they will be stacked at the top of the 25 percent rate in Canada.
In an interview with CBC News last week, Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s ambassador to the United States, said that the illegal migration of Canada to the United States has decreased by 90 percent in recent months, and President’s advisors have State “pleased” with progress.
With more money and resources, the officials of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) have been taking drugs at the border, including fentanyl.
Even before these new efforts, Canada represented less than one percent of all fentanyl imports seized in the United States, according to federal data.
Even so, to satisfy Trump’s declared concerns, the Federal Government appointed a fentanyl tsar to lead Canada’s efforts to accumulate the flow.
A CBC news analysis of the border data shows that Canada really seized more drugs in last year than the Americans captured on their side of the 49th parallel.
CBSA officials confiscated about eight million grams of drugs compared to the five million taken by the officials of the United States custom and border protection (CBP) last year, according to government data.
Trump said Tuesday that “many countries” have “mistreated” the United States and is “not only Canada and Mexico.”
“We were led, in some cases, by fools,” he said.
“I am not even blaming the other countries that did this. I blame our leadership for allowing this to happen, who can blame them if they made these great offers with the United States, take advantage of the United States of manufacturing, only in manufacture. Everything, every aspect. “
The “Abuse” and “Agreements” talk could be a reference to the United Canadian-State Commercial Deficit, which is largely driven by the American Canadian oil demand cheaper.
When oil exports are excluded, Americans actually have a commercial surplus with Canada, according to data from the Canadian government.
Trump has floated in tremendously inaccurate figures on how large that deficit is, even recently claiming that they were “$ 200 billion.”
The United States government Own data It suggests that the trade deficit trade with Canada was $ 63 billion in the United States as of December 2024.
Trump himself renegotiated the Canadá-Mexico (Cusma) agreement in his first mandate, qualifying it at that time “the best commercial agreement ever made.”
