The president of the United States, Donald Trump, threatens to impose a battery of tariffs on Canada as retaliation for the decision of the province of Ontario to make the electricity that sells to the United States increases.
Thus, he announced on Tuesday that will raise up to 50% tariffs on steel and aluminum from Canada to a measure that will enter into force on Wednesday.
“In view of the fact that Ontario has imposed a 25 percent tariff on the electricity that enters the United States, I have instructed my secretary of Commerce (Howard Lutnick) so that Add an additional 25 percent tariffup to 50 percent, to all steel and aluminum that enter the United States from Canada, “Trump said in his profile in Truth Social, his own social network.
The American president has also announced that “shortly” will declare the national emergency on electricity In the “threatened” area for this recent measure of the Ontario government, which will allow the United States to “quickly do what should be done to relieve this abusive threat of Canada.”
Threatens to climb the rates to cars
Along these lines, Trump has threatened to impose an extra battery of rates on Canada If you do not withdraw your “atrocious tariffs”and has directly pointed to a “substantial increase” as of April 2 of the tax at cars entering the country. This measure is aimed at “permanently close the car manufacturing business in Canada.”
Trump has also denounced that the northern neighbor “pays very little” for his national security and “depends” on the United States in military matters, an issue for which Washington is “subsidizing” Ottawa with “more than 200,000 million dollars a year.” “This cannot continue, The only thing that makes sense is that Canada becomes our beloved state 51“He said.
Ironiza with Canada the “State 51” of the United States
“This would make all tariffs and everything else disappeared completely. Canadian taxes will be reduced substantially, they would be safer, militarily and in other aspects, which never before, there would be no problem on the northern border and the largest and most powerful nation in the world would be bigger, better and stronger than ever, and Canada would be part of that,” he added.
To culminate, Trump has advocated erase The “Artificial Line of separation drawn many years ago” Between the United States and Canada, what the “safer and most beautiful nation in the world would produce, and the Canadian anthem would serve to represent” a great and powerful state within the largest nation that the world has ever seen. “
