Canada and Mexico hit back against Trump’s tariffs as Beijing vows ‘countermeasures’ – US politics live
Canadian and Mexican goods will face a 25% levy with Chinese imports carrying an extra 10% tariff
Ontario Premier Doug Ford called the tariffs “unjustified”, “unfair” and “illegal”, as he said they broke the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement reached in 2018 during Trump’s first term in office.
Ford told CNN:
Well, we’ll have retaliatory measures. It’s unfortunate, we don’t want to do it. We’d rather have a strong trading partner with the US…
We want to ship down more products, more critical minerals, more oil. That’s what we want to do. But I can assure you what president Trump underestimates: the resilience of the Canadian people.
What’s really disturbing when president Trump is using fentanyl as a reason, lumping us in with Mexico and China – the figures from US Customs is very clear.
There’s over 9,600 kilos coming fentanyl coming from Mexico. Ours is 19 kilos, which is too much, which is point 001% of fentanyl, compared to Mexico coming into the US, compared to over 25,000 kilos of narcotics, be it heroin or cocaine, opioids coming from the US into Canada.
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