Concerning China's trade ties, Trump threatens Canada with 100 percent tariffs.

 

U.S.  President Donald Trump issued a warning to Canada over its growing trade ties with China, threatening 100% tariffs on Canadian exports to the United States.

U.S.  Saturday, President Donald Trump issued a severe warning to Canada regarding its expanding economic relationship with China, threatening substantial trade tariffs. Trump stated that there would be a one hundred percent tariff on all Canadian goods entering the United States in response to any action taken by Ottawa to facilitate Chinese access to American markets. Trump denied that Canada could be used as a "drop off port" for Chinese exports headed for the U.S. market in a post on his Truth Social platform. Trump wrote, "He is sorely mistaken if Governor Carney thinks he is going to make Canada a 'Drop Off Port' for China to send goods and products into the United States." “China will eat Canada alive, completely devour it, including the destruction of their businesses, social fabric, and general way of life,” his post read.

It’s the first time Trump has referred to Carney as “governor,” a term he used to call former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from time to time.

Trump added that "a 100% Tariff against all Canadian goods and products coming into the U.S.A." would result from any agreement between China and Canada facilitating such trade. Trump appeared to be under pressure, according to political analyst Lori Williams of Mount Royal University in Calgary, who noted that his approach can be "predictably unpredictable."

"Below the surface, there’s a whole lot of negotiating happening politically, economically, and the rest of the world is hoping it will keep some sort of stability in the midst of the storms," she stated in an interview with Global News. A week after Carney returned from a trip to Beijing, where he negotiated a new "strategic partnership" with China with the goal of expanding trade and investment between the two countries, the post was made. Carney described the agreement as a "recalibration" of Canada's relationship with Beijing. Following the agreement, China has already begun rapidly importing Canadian agricultural products. Among the first shipments are Canadian canola oil and beef products which Federal Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald confirmed would be headed for China.

More to come.

 – With files from The Canadian Press