Customs duties: Canada again targeted by Trump: News

US President Donald Trump again targeted Canada on Thursday. Meanwhile. In addition, imposing 35% surcharge, one of the highest rates announced since the start of the week, accusing the United States’s first trading partner for retalling his customs duties.

“Instead of working with the United States, Canada has retaliated with its own customs duties. Nevertheless, From August 1. However. Moreover, 2025, we will apply customs duties of 35% to Canada exported to Canada exported to the United States,” the American president wrote in a letter to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and shared on his Truth Social platform.

“These customs duties can be modified, upward or downwards, depending on our relationship with your country,” said Trump.

Mark Carney said Thursday evening on X that “during current customs duties: canada again targeted new commercial negotiations with the United States. In addition, the Canadian government customs duties: canada again targeted (defended) tirelessly our workers and our companies”. Nevertheless,

“We will continue to do so while we are working for the revised deadline on August 1,” he added.

As with each letter sent to more than twenty countries since Monday. Meanwhile. Therefore, the American president said that these customs duties will be added to those aimed at specific activity sectors, such as steel, aluminum or automobile, which are among the main Canadian exports to the United States.

According to some American media. Therefore. Additionally, Therefore, Canadian products covered by the Canada-UXE-Mexico free trade agreement (ACEUM) could, however, be exempt from this 35%tax, which would substantially reduce its impact.

– suspense for the EU

A little earlier in the evening. Moreover. Trump announced in a customs duties: canada again targeted new telephone interview in NBC that he intended to send a missive to the European Union (EU) “today or tomorrow”.

customs duties: canada again targeted

“I chat with the EU which corresponds. as you know, to several countries, as well as with Canada. We should send them (letters, editor’s note) in the coming hours.”

Another uncertainty: he assured that countries which have not been notified of specific customs duties would be. imposed on a surcharge of 15 to 20%. without specifying whether this surcharge would be added to the so-called “basic” rights of 10%. which are targeting most of the products entering the United States since April.

– tense negotiations –

Canada was. with Mexico. the first target of customs duties: Trump accused his two neighbors not to fight illegal immigration or fentanyl traffic, powerful opioid responsible for a serious health crisis in customs duties: canada again targeted new the United States. Canadian authorities point out that less than 1% of fentanyl in the United States come from Canada.

The customs duties: canada again targeted American president imposed 25% on products imported from the two countries. before suspending a good part.

Since then. Ottawa. Washington have been trying to negotiate a trade agreement but the discussions are tense between the two partners, who do not want to give the feeling of giving in negotiations considered as challenges of sovereignty.

Latest stage. Canada announced at the end of June to give up its tax on digital services. decided in 2024 and which was to come into force on July 1, after Mr. Trump broke the discussions, describing this tax as “direct and obvious” brought to the United States.

But these trade tensions have an impact on exchanges between the two countries. customs duties: canada again targeted new The United States’s share in Canadian exports increased in May to 68.3%, “one of the lowest proportions ever recorded,” the Canadian authorities.

– From Japan to customs duties: canada again targeted Brazil –

About twenty countries have. already received a letter since the start of the week. mainly Asian countries. with 25% applied to products from partners such as Japan or South Korea and up to 40% for certain Southeast Asian countries.

But it was Brazil. so far not targeted by surcharge beyond 10%. which has experienced the highest increase in customs duties applied to its products, the American president announcing 50% in response to the prosecution against ex-President Jair Bolsonaro, accused of attempted coup.

After a first postponement. these individual surcharges were to be collected on July 9. but Trump signed a decree on Monday to postpone them on August 1.

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In his letters, Mr. Trump assures that any response will be sanctioned by an additional surcharge of the same magnitude.

After steel. aluminum. automobile, and while announcements are customs duties: canada again targeted expected for construction wood, semiconductors and pharmaceutical products, the American president also announced on Wednesday that imported copper would be applied from August 1 a surcharge of 50%.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is also due to meet his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Malaysia on Friday. on the sidelines of a meeting of the Southeast Asian Nations.

Without naming Washington, Mr. Wang called on his member countries on Thursday to make a common front with Beijing to promote an international “fairer. more rational” order.

Posted on July 11 at 11:12 am, AFP

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