Washington: US President Donald Trump has warned Canada that he will escalate his trade war after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced retaliatory
Washington: US President Donald Trump has warned Canada that he will escalate his trade war after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced retaliatory tariffs on US goods.
Trump’s remark came after Trudeau said on Tuesday that Canada will be implementing 25 per cent tariffs against USD 155 billion worth of American products.
On Tuesday itself, US President Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social, “Please explain to Governor Trudeau, of Canada, that when he puts on a Retaliatory Tariff on the US, our Reciprocal Tariff will immediately increase by a like amount!”
Trump’s 25-per cent tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada took effect on Tuesday, prompting Trudeau to announce retaliatory tariffs on more than USD 100 billion of American goods that will take effect over 21 days.
Trump has repeatedly referred to the Canadian Prime Minister as the “Governor” of Canada in recent weeks as he called for the country to become the US’s 51st state.
Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa on Tuesday that Trump’s “dumb” trade war was motivated by a desire “to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy because that’ll make it easier to annex us”.
