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Trump Threatens 100% Tariff On Canada For Drawing Close To China

admin — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:57:00 +0000

US President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to impose a 100% tariff on Canadian goods if Ottawa goes ahead with its trade deal with China.

Prime Minister Mark Carney visited Beijing last week and struck a deal under which Canada will ease tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles that it imposed in tandem with the US in 2024. In exchange, China will lower retaliatory tariffs on key Canadian agricultural products.

If the deal wasn’t enough, Carney’s rousing speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos where he vowed to diversify Canada’s economic partners and reduce dependence on its southern neighbour rattled Trump.

“If Governor 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,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social, using the nickname he placed on Carney’s predecessor, Justin Trudeau.

“China will eat Canada alive, completely devour it, including the destruction of their businesses, social fabric, and general way of life. 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.,” the president added.

Relations between Washington and Ottawa soured after Trump’s returned to the White House last year. The US president has floated the idea of making Canada the 51st US state, besides his threats to annex the Danish territory of Greenland just east of the country.

Amid sustained pressure from the US, Canada has set an ambitious goal to increase exports to China by 50% by 2030 and Carney has pledged to significantly increase non-US trade in the next ten years. He is reportedly planning a visit to India in the coming months.

In Davos, the PM sharply criticised the Trump policy of employing coercive measures against allies and extolled middle powers to bind closer and resist great power hegemony. His speech drew a rare standing ovation at the gathering and irked Trump, who not only belittled Canada in his address a day later but also withdrew his Board of Peace invitation to Carney.

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Canadians pull tariff ad after furious Trump scraps trade talks

admin — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 16:13:00 +0000

U.S. President Donald Trump, in front of a painting of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan. File
| Photo Credit: Reuters

The Canadian province of Ontario said on Friday (October 24, 2025) it would pull an anti-tariff ad featuring former U.S. president Ronald Reagan that prompted current leader Donald Trump to scrap trade talks.

Mr. Trump announced on his Truth Social network on Thursday that he had “terminated” all negotiations with Canada over what he called the “fake” ad campaign that he said misrepresented fellow Republican Reagan.

Less than 24 hours later, Ontario premier Doug Ford said he was suspending the ads after talking to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney about the spiraling row with Washington.

“In speaking with Prime Minister Carney, Ontario will pause its U.S. advertising campaign effective Monday so that trade talks can resume,” Mr. Ford said in a post on X.

Mr. Ford added however that he had told his team to keep airing the ad during the first two games this weekend of baseball’s World Series — in which a Canadian team, the Toronto Blue Jays, face the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The Canadian ad used quotes from a radio address on trade that Reagan delivered in 1987, in which he warned against ramifications that he said high tariffs on foreign imports could have on the U.S. economy.

It cited Reagan as saying that “high tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars,” a quote that matches a transcript of his speech on the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library’s website.

The Ronald Reagan foundation wrote on X on Thursday that the Ontario government had used “selective audio and video” and that it was reviewing its legal options.

Mr. Trump did not immediately react to the Ontario premier’s decision to pull the ad.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told reporters that Mr. Trump had made his “extreme displeasure” known and was expected to respond later.

A senior U.S. official said that Mr. Trump would probably encounter Mr. Carney at a dinner on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in South Korea on Wednesday.

“They will likely see each other,” the official told AFP.

Published – October 25, 2025 09:43 pm IST

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Trump Calls For Canada To Become “51st State” Again

admin — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 14:12:13 +0000

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President Donald Trump on Sunday called again for Canada to become a US state, heightening tensions further with one of his country’s closest allies after hitting it with heavy tariffs.

While claiming the United States pays “hundreds of billions of dollars to SUBSIDIZE Canada,” apparently referring to the US trade deficit with its neighbor, Trump said “without this massive subsidy, Canada ceases to exist as a viable Country.”

“Therefore, Canada should become our Cherished 51st State,” he wrote on his Truth social media platform, claiming the move would bring “much lower taxes, and far better military protection for the people of Canada – AND NO TARIFFS!”

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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