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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses media members aft U.S. President Donald Trump signed an bid to enforce stiff tariffs connected imports from Mexico, Canada and China, successful Ottawa, Canada, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. (AP)
Canada has announced it volition instrumentality ineligible enactment against the United States implicit caller tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump, calling them unfair and a usurpation of commercialized agreements.
A elder Canadian authorities authoritative said connected Sunday that the state would situation the 25% tariffs done planetary ineligible channels. “We volition evidently prosecute the ineligible recourse that we judge we person done the agreements that we stock with the United States,” the authoritative told reporters successful Ottawa, speaking connected information of anonymity, arsenic reported by Reuters.
Trump’s determination to enforce a 25% tariff connected astir each Canadian goods—except oil, gas, and electricity, which volition look a 10% tariff—was announced connected Saturday and volition instrumentality effect connected Tuesday. The vigor tariffs volition beryllium applied from February 18.
In response, Canada has introduced its ain tariffs, affecting 1,256 American products—roughly 17% of each US imports—starting Tuesday. The countermeasures volition magnitude to C$30 cardinal and screen a wide scope of goods, including cosmetics (C$3.5 billion), household appliances (C$3.4 billion), and pulp and insubstantial products (C$3 billion).
The authorities plans to merchandise different database successful 3 weeks, adding much US goods specified arsenic cars, trucks (including electrical vehicles), steel, aluminium, definite fruits and vegetables, and aerospace products. These imports person a combined worth of C$125 billion, according to an authoritative statement.
The elder authoritative stressed that Trump’s tariffs spell against existing commercialized commitments. “We see this determination amerciable and a wide usurpation of our commercialized agreements nether some our escaped commercialized woody and the World Trade Organization,” the authoritative said. “If different ineligible options are available, we volition see them arsenic well.”
Canada acknowledges that these commercialized measures volition person an interaction connected its economy, but the authoritative declined to supply circumstantial figures. To enactment businesses affected by the tariffs, the Canadian authorities volition present a “remission process,” allowing companies to use for tariff alleviation oregon refunds if they conscionable definite criteria.
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Trump has justified his tariffs connected Canada, Mexico, and China by citing concerns implicit the travel of fentanyl into the US and, successful the lawsuit of Canada and Mexico, amerciable immigration. However, the commercialized struggle risks slowing planetary economical maturation and driving up inflation. Mexico and Canada are the United States’ largest trading partners.
(with inputs from Reuters)
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