US President Donald Trump imposes a customs tariff on all steel and aluminum imports to the United States, including those in Canada and Mexico.
On Monday, Trump signed a pair of presidential statements that impose a 25 percent tariff on steel and aluminum, without exceptions or exemptions.
The Trump administration said this step was aimed at strengthening the American steel and aluminum industries and protecting the American economic and national security.
“The steel and aluminum tariffs 2.0 will put an end to foreign dumping, enhance local production and secure our steel and aluminum industries such as spine and column for American economic and national security,” Trump’s adviser, Peter Navarro, told reporters.
“This is not only about trade. It comes to ensuring that America never has to rely on foreign countries for critical industries such as steel and aluminum.”
“Why should Canada be the country 51” while signing ads in the Oval Office, “Trump added the American dependence on Canadian and aluminum steel is another reason.
Our biggest sources steel Imports CanadaBrazil and Mexico, followed by South Korea and Vietnam, according to the government and the American iron and steel Data Institute.
With a large margin, Canada It is the largest supplier of the initial aluminum minerals of the United States, which represents 79 percent of total imports in the first 11 months of 2024.
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The customs tariff stopped postponing a 30 -day tariff from a 25 percent tariff for Canadian goods and 6 percent of Canadian energy duties.
The United Steelworsers Union said it was “horrific” through Trump’s work, noting that Canada imports 39 percent of the steel from the United States, but it exports 94 percent of its production there, at a value of $ 20 billion annually.
“The Trump tariff is a direct attack on workers and societies,” said Marti Warren, the National Director of the University of South California in Canada, in a statement calling Canada to “return as much”.
“Canada is not a problem, and these definitions will harm workers only on both sides of the border,” added international USW President Dave McCall.
The Canadian Steel Producers Association said it “is deeply concerned” about the threat of Trump’s tariff earlier on Monday, and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce said that uncertainty about the definitions is harmful to companies and consumers in Canada and the United States
Matthew Holmes, CEO of the Chamber, said: “While the ability to bear the costs and inflation at the forefront of both Americans and Canadians, adding new tax and new costs,” said Matthew Holmes, CEO of the Chamber.
Trump’s order raised the customs tariff rate on aluminum imports to 25 percent from the previous 10 percent imposed in 2018, and a 25 percent tariff on millions of tons of steel imports and aluminum imports that were entering into the United States empty under the shares deals, exemptions and thousands From the exceptions of the product.
The statements were attached to the 2018 national security tariff for 2018 to protect steel and aluminum makers. A White House official said that previous exemptions had eaten the effectiveness of these measures.
Trump will also impose a new standard in North America that requires “melting and pouring” and aluminum to be “a son -in -law and casts” in the region to reduce the minimal Chinese steel imports in the United States
The request also targets steel products that use imported steel for definitions.
Trump imposed a steel and aluminum tariff by 25 and 10 percent, respectively, during his first term in March 2018 using national security as a justification.
Canada was initially given an exemption for these duties, but eventually it was defined on May 31, 2018. Canada responded with a series of anti -American products such as Florida Orange juice. Both sides reached a deal to raise the definitions after a long period of closing the free trade agreement negotiations in the summer of 2018.
Doug Ford, Prime Minister of Ontario, who is being re -elected, said at a campaign in Ocville earlier on Monday that the boycott would respond to “difficult” and “fast” to the tariff of steel and aluminum.
“We did not start fighting, we do not want,” he told reporters. “But if someone you know gives you pop music in the nose, they will get this pop twice.”
Conservative leader Pierre Beyviri called on Monday to match the customs tariff against the dollar on the US steel and aluminum in response.
– With the files from Reuters
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