President Donald Trump said Tuesday he has ordered his administration to raise tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum imports by an additional 25%, bringing the total duties to 50%.
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The new policy will go into effect Wednesday morning, Trump said.
Trump said he was imposing the latest tariffs in response to a decision by Ontario’s government to slap a 25% tax on electricity exports to the U.S.
That move by Ontario Premier Doug Ford was itself issued in retaliation to the sweeping 25% tariffs that Trump had placed on imports from Canada.
“Based on Ontario, Canada, placing a 25% Tariff on “Electricity” coming into the United States, I have instructed my Secretary of Commerce to add an ADDITIONAL 25% Tariff, to 50%, on all STEEL and ALUMINUM COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES FROM CANADA, ONE OF THE HIGHEST TARIFFING NATIONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday morning.
“This will go into effect TOMORROW MORNING, March 12th,” he wrote.
Trump also demanded that Canada “immediately drop” an “Anti-American Farmer Tariff” on certain U.S. dairy products, warning that he “will shortly be declaring a National Emergency on Electricity within the threatened area.”
“This will allow the U.S to quickly do what has to be done to alleviate this abusive threat from Canada,” he wrote.
Minutes after Trump sent the post, Ford said he would keep his countermeasure on U.S. energy in place.
“We will not back down. We will be relentless,” Ford said on MSNBC. “I apologize to the American people that President Trump decided to have an unprovoked attack on our country, on families, on jobs, and it’s unacceptable.”
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