Trump threatens more tariff hikes after Canada avenges | Trade war

The US President has published a warning about social media after Canada Prime Minister Trudeau struck the “dumb” trade war.

US President Donald Trump has warned Canada that he will escalate his trade war after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced retaliatory rates for American goods.

Trump's 25 % Tariffs On imports from Mexico and Canada, it came into force on Tuesday, prompting Trudeau to declare from igniting tariffs for more than $ 100 billion US goods that will come into force over 21 days.

The US President responded to the Truth Social, the social media platform he possesses, saying: “Please explain to the governor Trudeau of Canada that when he puts a canceling tariff for the United States, our reciprocal tariff will immediately increase with a similar sum!”

Trump has repeatedly referred to Canadian Prime Minister as a “governor” of Canada in recent weeks as he urged the country to become the United States 51st countryS

Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa on Tuesday that Trump's “dumb” trade war was motivated by the desire “see a complete collapse of the Canadian economy because it will facilitate our annexation”.

“Now, first of all, it will never happen,” the Canadian leader said. “But yes, it can cause damage to the Canadian economy … But it will quickly understand, as American families will understand that this will hurt people on both sides of the border.”

Wines Najibula, Vice President of Research and Strategy in the Asia -Tihoetan Foundation of Canada, told Al Jazeera that the trade war “harms consumers and businesses and economy in Canada” within a few weeks.

Canada has said it will challenge the US measures at the World Trade Organization and through the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement.

“The Canadians are reasonable and we are polite, but we will not give way to battle,” said Trudeau, who will withdraw as a Prime Minister after the ruling Liberal party He chooses a new leader on Sunday.

Ontario Doug Ford Prime Minister said he would issue a 25 percent electricity export tax sold to the United States and could later cut it completely if US tariffs continue. In 2023, Ontario fed 1.5 million homes in Michigan, New York and Minnesota.

“There is no excuse”

Mexican President Claudia Shainbaum, meanwhile, joined Canada and China-who was also affected on Tuesday by doubling obligations on goods up to 20 percent-as he promised to respond to the tariff increases imposed by the Trump administration.

“There is no motive or reason, no justification that supports this decision that will affect our people and our nations,” she said during a daily press conference in Mexico City, signaling that she will announce the US products to be directed by Mexico on Sunday.

Shainbaum undertook the White House Information List, published on Monday who reiterated the statement that Mexican drug trafficking He continues because of “impatient relations” with the government, raising his allegations as “offensive, defamatory and without support.”

Recently, the Mexico government seized more than one ton of opioid fentanyl, dismantling 329 methamphetamine laboratories and extraditing 29 figures of a drug cartel in the United States last week.

Trump also said he had taken action to combat fentanyl traffic across the northern border of the United States, accusing Ottawa of not doing enough to stop the flow of the drug and his predecessors of chemicals in the United States. Trudeau said the claim was “completely fake, completely unjustified, completely false.”

Meanwhile, Beijing has announced that it will respond with tariffs up to 15 percent of a number of farms exports to the United States and expand the number of US companies subject to export control and other restrictions.