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President Donald Trump on Monday announced the U.S. will impose a 50 percent tariff increase against Canada on vehicles, steel and other items after trade talks between the two countries collapsed.
The two sides were locked in negotiations last week to find an off-ramp for 50 percent U.S. tariffs on a spate of Canadian goods, but talks collapsed on Friday, leading to new tariffs on some $20 billion of Canadian goods. In the aftermath, both parties pointed fingers for the breakdown in negotiations, accusing the other side of making last-minute demands that tanked the deal.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Saturday said Canada would retaliate dollar-for-dollar against American steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, and electronics, set to kick in Sept. 8.
The U.S. is also raising the stakes, Trump said Monday.
“On January First, 2027, Tariffs on all Cars, Trucks, both large and small, Automotive Parts, and Steel, will be increased to 50" percent, he wrote on Truth Social, adding that the tariffs will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2027.
“Build in the U.S. and there are ZERO TARIFFS. Canada will be treated like a State no longer!,” he noted.
Carney has framed the latest U.S. tariff foray as an “attack” on Canada.
“It is an attack in a war,” he said on Parliament Hill in French. “It’s not a good choice. We want a global accord between the two countries.”
Trump’s post drew criticism from at least one member of his party.
Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins — who’s in the middle of a high-stakes Senate race — called the president’s decision to impose the new tariffs “a mistake,” saying she met recently with the Canadian ambassador and urged him to focus on the barriers to dairy products.
“We produce a lot of meat: our blueberries, our potatoes, our lobster, our lumber that is processed across the border.” Collins told reporters Monday at an annual parade in Maine. “If it comes back with a huge tariff on it, perhaps as much as 50 percent, that increases the cost of heating, building homes, and merchants eating our best-known products.”
In a social media post over the weekend, the Maine lawmaker previously urged “both sides to return to the negotiating table,” noting the “on-again/off-again” talks between the two leaders lead to “higher costs, risk, and uncertainty for Maine businesses.”
