Trump vows 100% tariff on Canadian imports if Canada strikes deal with China

Donald Trump said he would impose a 100% tariff on all Canadian imports if Canada makes a trade deal with China, the US president said on Saturday. He also announced that the US had taken oil from recently seized Venezuelan tankers. The president wrote on his Truth Social platform that if the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, 'thinks he is going to make Canada a 'Drop Off Port' for China to send goods and products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken'.

Trump added that 'China will eat Canada alive, completely devour it, including the destruction of their businesses, social fabric, and general way of life' and warned that 'If Canada makes a deal with China, it will immediately be hit with a 100% Tariff against all Canadian goods and products coming into the [US].' The report notes Trump has repeatedly invoked tariffs to pressure other countries, sometimes with success, though he has also repeatedly backed down from his most extreme tariff-related threats.

Days earlier he walked back a threat to impose sweeping tariffs on several European countries to facilitate what he called the US's acquisition of Greenland, and he said he had reached 'the framework of a future deal' on Greenland, according to a New York Post interview. In the same interview Trump said US refineries will process oil his administration had taken from seized Venezuelan tankers.

He was quoted as saying, 'Let's put it this way – they don't have any oil.

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Politics, Donald Trump, Canada, China, Venezuela, Tariffs