Carney said the Canadian government will fire back with dollar-for-dollar tariffs on American steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper and electronics. Other product categories that are subject to Trump\u2019s tariffs will also be targeted, he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\t \u201cThis is a focused response to protect and defend our industries and allow them to compete with U.S. products in the Canadian market,\u201d the prime minister said.\u00a0<\/p>\n Canada\u2019s tariffs will come into effect on Sept. 8, and Carney said the government will release more details in the next few days.<\/p>\n He is retaliating reluctantly, he added, because Canadian families and businesses will face higher prices and less consumer choice as a result.\u00a0<\/p>\n Even so, Carney did not rule out the possibility of further action. He did not reject out of hand a question about restricting or taxing energy exports to the U.S.\u2014something he\u2019s previously said he\u2019d been unwilling to do\u2014but said the government would start with protection for industries that have been disadvantaged by American tariffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n At the same time, he said, Canada is working toward diversifying its trade partnerships for key exports like oil, gas and critical minerals: \u201cIt makes us less dependent on the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n This is the first time Carney has directly retaliated against Trump\u2019s trade aggression. He previously offered concessions to the White House, including eliminating<\/a> the government\u2019s $1-billion plan for a digital sales tax on large online companies, in an attempt to secure a deal that would lift American tariffs on Canadian goods. He also pulled back<\/a> on retaliatory tariffs issued under former prime minister Justin Trudeau by exempting goods covered under the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA).<\/p>\n U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer blamed<\/a> Canada for pulling out of the talks at the last minute, and had previously signalled that the U.S. would not take retaliation from Canada lightly. \u201cIf a country retaliates against us, we\u2019re obviously not going to tolerate that. We\u2019ll take action,\u201d he said last week, during a press conference at a factory in Iowa. As of midday Saturday, neither Greer nor the White House had addressed Carney\u2019s plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ontario Premier Doug Ford cheered Carney\u2019s new, more aggressive approach, and called on Canada\u2019s governments to use \u201cevery single asset\u201d the country has to wage a battle. \u201cWe never started this fight, but I can assure you, we\u2019re going to win this fight,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cWe have to use every tool in our toolbox to make sure, as Donald Trump is trying to inflict pain on every Canadian, that we inflict pain right back until he realizes that we\u2019re his number-one customer in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n Until late Friday night, Carney said, negotiators had an agreement in sight that would have spared Canada from this latest round. Ottawa had agreed to lay down any remaining retaliatory measures instituted under Trudeau in exchange for lower, more economically viable Section 232 sectoral tariffs on the steel, aluminum, lumber and auto sectors. Canada was also willing to ask provinces to return American liquor to Canadian shelves, and make administrative changes to the supply managed dairy sector.\u00a0<\/p>\n Carney said the talks fell apart when the U.S. brought in late demands that would have effectively changed the terms of the agreement, or eroded Canada\u2019s economic and political sovereignty. For one, he said, Trump\u2019s trade envoys wanted to exempt certain vehicles from tariff relief under the deal, including heavy-duty F-Series trucks manufactured<\/a> at Ford\u2019s Oakville, Ont., plant.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201c\u200b\u200bWe clarified what was on offer, and were continually disappointed by the answers,\u201d Carney said.<\/p>\n The White House also tried to put limits on Canada\u2019s ability to make trade deals with other countries in the final hours of the talks, the prime minister said, while pushing Canada to relax French-language requirements on U.S. companies selling products to Canada.<\/p>\n \u201cIn short, they asked too much, and they offered too little,\u201d he said. \u201cMore fundamentally, the cumulative effect of U.S. demands revealed the limits of their commitment to a true economic partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n Those limits call the future of a sustainable renewal of Canada\u2019s trade pact with the U.S. and Mexico into question. Carney said the development isn\u2019t good news for the CUSMA, but that at least the situation has become more clear. \u201cWe have a new perspective on that because of these negotiations,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Prime Minister Mark Carney laid out his revised plan of attack against U.S. trade aggression Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[15705,13112,4939,14740,235,36435,111,386,290,6410],"class_list":["post-178859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mark-carney","tag-autos","tag-canada-u-s-trade","tag-cusma","tag-dairy","tag-economy","tag-liquor","tag-mark-carney","tag-markets","tag-national","tag-steel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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