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After announcing them this March 11, Donald Trump considered no longer to apply massive tariffs to Canada.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, speaks with the press with a Tesla vehicle in the southern porch of the White House on March 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Free Press Photo: AFP)
The relationship between Canada and the United States He tightened on Tuesdaywhen US President Donald Trump He threatened his neighbor with duplicating the tariffs planned to his steel -siderurgy before going back hours later.
In the morning, the president announced in his social truth network that would duplicate customs tariffs on Steel and Canadian aluminum that They will take effect on Wednesday, passing them from 25% to 50%.
Thus reacted to the decision of the Canadian province of Ontario de Ontario charge a surcharge to electricity exports to three US states.
But in the afternoon, after a telephone conversation between the Prime Minister of Ontario, Doug Ford, and the US Secretary of Commerce, Howard LutnickTrump changed his mind.
“There is someone very strong in Canada who announced that it would impose a surcharge to electricity. (…) That would have been something very bad and it will not do it, respect that“Donald Trump said in the White House. And he added that he would probably reconsider duplicating tariffs.
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