{"id":200663,"date":"2026-09-08T17:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/200663\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T17:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:20:14","slug":"canadas-retaliatory-tariffs-hit-us-products-as-trump-warns-of-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/200663\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada’s retaliatory tariffs hit US products as Trump warns of escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"

(ABC NEWS)\u2013 Retaliatory tariffs issued<\/a>\u00a0by Canada hit some imports from the United States at one minute after midnight Eastern Time on Tuesday, intensifying a trade war between the longtime allies and risking an escalation from President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Mark Carney walks with President Donald Trump after a group photo at the G7 Summit, Monday, June 16, 2025, in Kananaskis, Canada. (AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein)<\/p>\n

Levies as high as 50% apply to hundreds of U.S. products, ranging from aluminum foil to raincoats to cheese. U.S. elected officials in states bordering Canada, including Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, have\u00a0warned<\/a>\u00a0the trade dispute will hurt local businesses and consumers.<\/p>\n

Canadian officials said the retaliatory measure would target about $20 billion worth of U.S. products, mirroring the size of a recent batch of U.S. levies. The targeted goods amount to nearly 6% of annual U.S. exports to Canada, according to\u00a0U.S. Census Bureau<\/a>\u00a0data for 2025.<\/p>\n

A tit-for-tat trade war\u00a0erupted<\/a>\u00a0last month after official negotiations collapsed and a fresh round of U.S. levies took hold. Within days, Canadian officials announced what they described as matching tariffs that would begin in the second week of September.<\/p>\n

The Canadian tariffs target many products included in a batch of U.S. levies last month.<\/p>\n

Trump has repeatedly warned of a forceful response if the Canadian tariffs were to take hold.<\/p>\n

On Monday afternoon, Trump threatened to bar the sale of planes made by Canada-based aerospace company Bombardier unless the firm agreed to manufacture products in the U.S.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they want our Market, they must build here, and stop treating America like a \u2018piggybank,’\u201d Trump wrote in a social media post.<\/p>\n

In a statement to ABC News, Bombardier said it generates jobs and other economic benefits in the U.S.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe American aerospace industry is a clear winner on trade and exports. Bombardier is a\u202fstrong contributor to the sector, creating tens of thousands of jobs across the United States. Aerospace is routinely one of the top export sectors for the United States and a continual trade surplus winner,\u201d the statement said in part.<\/p>\n

Late last month, Trump vowed to ratchet up tariffs from 25% to 50% on Canadian-made cars and auto parts beginning in January.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Trade, and in other ways, also, they are among the worst Nations in the World to deal with,\u201d Trump said on his social media platform at the time. \u201cThey feel entitled, and yet, WE DON\u2019T NEED CANADA, THEY NEED US!\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u00a0signed<\/a>\u00a0an executive order on Aug. 27 changing the name of Lake Ontario to \u201cLake America.\u201d Days later, Trump posted on social media an AI-generated video of birds with Trump\u2019s signature hairstyle marching with firearms to protect a body of water labeled \u201cLake America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Canada said it will continue referring to the lake as \u201cLake Ontario.\u201d In a post on X late last month, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said, \u201cThis lake is called Lake Ontario \u2014 today and forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carney rebuked the Trump administration further last week, saying U.S. public messaging signaled an unwillingness to negotiate a resolution.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the Americans stop doing memes, stop throwing shade and stop trying to be tough, and start being serious about having those discussions, we can have those discussions,\u201d Carney said.<\/p>\n

In the first half of 2026, the U.S. exported $175.8 billion in goods to Canada \u2014 the second-biggest export trading partner after Mexico \u2014 accounting for 14% of all U.S. exports, according to the\u00a0Census Bureau<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For now, levies apply to a sliver of goods that travel between the U.S. and Canada, limiting the impact of the trade dispute, but a potential escalation threatens to deepen the pain for both economies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a classic trade-war situation: Somebody puts on a tariff, another country retaliates dollar for dollar and then more tariffs are added,\u201d Campbell Harvey, a professor at Duke\u2019s Fuqua School of Business who studies commodity markets,\u00a0previously told<\/a>\u00a0ABC News. \u201cThen we get into this really bad equilibrium.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(ABC NEWS)\u2013 Retaliatory tariffs issued\u00a0by Canada hit some imports from the United States at one minute after midnight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[17,22918,111,202,6339,46231,400,437,24674],"class_list":["post-200663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mark-carney","tag-canada","tag-canadian-prime-minister-mark-carney","tag-mark-carney","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-tariff","tag-tariff-war","tag-tariffs","tag-trade-war","tag-u-s-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200663","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=200663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}