TRUMP: duties on Canadian aluminum and metal from 25% to 50%, from tomorrow | EUROtoday

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“I commissioned the secretary to the trade to add another 25% of duties, bringing them to 50%, all over the steel and aluminum from Canada”. This was written by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, on Truth. The new duties “will be effective from tomorrow”.

The American president states that the measure, “that it will enter into force tomorrow 12 March”, is a response to the transfer of the Canadian state of the Ontario who “imposed 25% rates on the electricity that goes to the US”, a transfer that was in flip the response to the duties imposed by Trump.

Trump then requested that Canada eliminates its “anti -American duties” on US dairy merchandise, at present between 250% and 390%. If Ottawa won’t scale back different charges deemed “abusive”, the president has threatened an extra improve in duties on vehicles from April 2, stating that the measure may “close” manufacturing in Canada.

Finally, Trump has re -launched the concept of ​​an annexation of Canada to the United States, claiming that changing into the “fifty -each state” would remove every price and would convey tax and security advantages to Canadian residents.