Trump threatens Canada with 100% tariffs if it ‘makes a cope with China’ | EUROtoday

US President Donald Trump has threatened to slap a 100% tariff on Canadian items if the nation strikes a commerce cope with China.

“If Canada makes a deal with China, it will immediately be hit with a 100% Tariff against all Canadian goods and products coming into the U.S.A.,” Trump stated on Truth Social.

It is unclear what deal Trump is referring to in his social media submit. Last week, Canada’s Prime Minister Carney introduced a “strategic partnership” with China, and agreed to scale back tariffs.

At the time, Trump referred to as the transfer “a good thing”. But tensions between the US and Canada have grown in latest days, after Carney stated in a speech in Davos that the US-led world order had been ruptured.

Carney additionally urged different “middle powers” to band collectively within the face of financial coercion by “greater powers”, although he didn’t point out Trump by identify.

Trump responded to the remarks in his personal speech the subsequent day, saying: “Canada lives because of the United States.”

The US president additionally withdrew an invite for Canada to hitch his new Board of Peace.

On Saturday, Trump stated in his social media submit that if Carney “thinks he is going to make Canada a ‘Drop Off Port’ for China to send goods and products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken”.

The BBC has contacted the White House and Carney’s workplace for remark.

Canada’s US commerce minister Dominic LeBlanc stated in an announcement: “There is no pursuit of a free trade deal with China.”

“What was achieved was resolution on several important tariff issues.”

LeBlanc stated the federal government was targeted on constructing a stronger Canadian financial system and strengthening commerce partnerships “throughout the world”.

Canada has been in search of to diversify commerce away from the US, its largest commerce accomplice, following the uncertainty brought on by Trump’s on-again-off-again tariffs.

Under the settlement reached between Carney and Chinese President Xi Jinping final week, China will decrease levies on Canadian canola oil from 85% to fifteen% by March, whereas Canada will tax Chinese EVs on the most-favoured-nation charge, 6.1% – down from 100%.

The deal was seen as a breakthrough after years of strained ties and tit-for-tat tariffs, and will see extra Chinese investments in Canada.

Carney stated the progress made with China units Canada up “well for the new world order”.