Trump doubles tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum, Ontario Torch

President Donald Trump threatened further tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum, Electricity and vehicles on Tuesday.

In response to Ontario, which placed a 25% tariff for electricity coming to the United States, Trump said he had instructed the secretary of the Howard Lutnik trade to add another 25% tariff for all steel and aluminum coming to the United States from Canada. The new 50% tariff will come into force on Wednesday morning.

Trump made a proclamation about the truth of the social that found Canada ‘one of the highest Oil Nation Anywhere in the world. ”

The move took place after the Prime Minister of the Ontario Doug Ford introduced 25% of the electricity export tariffs from the Canadian province to Michigan, New York and Minnesota on Monday. Speaking to journalists before the podium, which proclaims “Canada is not sold”, Ford said the supplement would cost families and enterprises in these states up to $ 400,000 each day. On average, Prime Minister Ontario said he would add about $ 100 a month to “hard -working Americans”.

“Let me be clear: I will not be ashamed to increase this charge,” Ford said. “If necessary, when the United States grows, I am not ashamed to close electricity.

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President Donald Trump accompanied by Secretary of Trade Howard Lutnik accepts the question from reporter in the Roosevelt’s room on March 3, 2025 in Washington, Colombia County (Andrew Harnica / Getti Image / Getti Image)

In the following message on Tuesday, Trump said: “Why would our country allow another country to put us electricity even in a small area?”

“Who made these decisions and why?” said Trump. “And you can imagine that Canada is leaning so low that it uses electricity that it so affects the life of innocent people as negotiations and threat?

Trump also said on Tuesday that Canada “should immediately abandon the tariffs on the anti -American farmer at 250% to 390% on various US production products, which has long been considered outrageous.” The president said he would soon declare “the national emergency on electricity within the threat,” a step that “will allow the US to quickly do what you need to alleviate this offensive threats from Canada.”

“If others are outrageous, long -standing tariffs will not be dropped to Canada, I increased significantly, on April 2, cars coming to the United States, which essentially closed the car production business in Canada. These cars can be made in the US!” Trump added.

Trump expressed interest in the US Getting control over Canada Through economic pressure, though it turned off potentially using military force. On the contrary, he did not rule out military force regarding his sights for the acquisition of Greenland and the Panama Canal.

The Prime Minister of the Ontario Doug Ford appears on the press conference at the Queen’s Park on March 10, 2025 in Toronto, Canada. (Catherine Ki Chen / Getti Image / Getty Images)

The president also accused on Tuesday that Canada “pay for national security by relying on the US for military defense.”

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“We subsidize Canada for a tune of more than $ 200 billion a year. Why ??? It can’t go on,” Trump wrote. “The only thing that makes sense is that Canada becomes our cherished fifty first state. It will make all the tariffs, and everything else will disappear. The Canadians will be very significantly reduced, they will be safer, military and otherwise, than if you earlier, it will no longer be the problem of the northern border, and the greatest and the greatest The strongest, Canada and Canada will be falling, and in the area located in the art line, and in Canada, which will be at the time when I will fall, and in this section, which is in that in art will be at the time when I will be in the art line, and in the art line The artistic line that will be strengthened in art that will be in the arts, which will finally disappear, and we will have the most beautiful nation in the world -and your brilliant “Canada” will continue to play, but now presenting a great and powerful state! ”

At his press conference on Monday, Prime Minister Ontario thanked the weekend Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudu For his service, deciphering the “uncertainty” brought by Trump.

The towers for transfer that carry high voltage electricity is given on March 8, 2025 in Windsor, Canada. (Bill Pulyena / Getti Image / Getty Images)

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“Until these tariffs come out of the table until the threat of tariffs disappears well, Ontario would not concede,” Ford told reporters. “We need to stop chaos once and for all.”