Trudeau says US wants to collapse Canada’s economy with tariffs

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau criticized Donald Trump’s tariff for Canada, describing it as “a very stupid thing to do” and pledged to make a “unavoidable battle” to protect its economy.

Trudeau accused the US president of planning “a complete collapse of the Canadian economy because this will make it easy to implicit.” “This will never happen. We will not be the 51st country,” he told reporters on Tuesday.

Trump imposed a 25 % tariff on products that enter the United States from Canada and Mexico and increased a tax on goods coming from China.

The Canadian Prime Minister announced a retaliatory tariff about American exports and warned that the trade war will be expensive for both countries.

“This is the time to respond strongly and prove that fighting with Canada will not have any winners,” Trudeau said.

He said that Canada’s main goal remains to raise the definitions so that “it does not last longer than necessary.”

Trump says he protects jobs and manufacturing us, and tries to prevent illegal immigration and drug trafficking. The US president says his goal is to adhere to the powerful optually pentanel, and he has blamed other countries differently from the arrival of drugs to the United States.

After the press conference of Rudo, in a publication on the social truth, Trump doubled his threat with more customs tariffs: “Please clarify the ruler Trudeau, from Canada, that when he puts a retaliatory tariff for the United States, our mutual tariffs will immediately increase with a similar amount!”

In response to the accusations, Trudeau said on Tuesday that there were no “justifications” of the new definitions, because less than 1 % of the fentanel that was intercepted on the American border came from Canada.

Claudia Shinbom, the Mexican President, repeated the words of Trudeau, who said that “there is no motive, there is no reason, no justification” for Trump’s move. A spokesperson on Tuesday, also pledged to issue her “tariff and non -carrier measures” – but she said more details will be provided on Sunday.

Experts say Trump’s tariff is likely to increase prices for consumers in the United States and abroad.

The three targeted countries are the best trade partners in America, as well as the measures that reach the grasum of fears of a broader commercial war.

Customs duties are a tax on imports from other countries, designed to protect from the cheapest competition from other places and enhance companies and jobs at home.

Canadian retaliatory measures include a 25 % mutual tariff that will be imposed on $ 155 billion ($ 107 billion; 84 billion pounds) of American goods:

• Tariff It is worth 30 billion dollars of goods You will become effective immediately
• The customs tariff for $ 125 billion of US products will become effective within 21 days

Canada’s Minister of Immigration Mark Miller has warned that up to one million jobs in Canada are in danger if the customs tariff was carried out, given how the interlocking trade between the two countries was.

“We cannot replace an economy responsible for 80 % of our trade overnight and will harm this,” he said on Monday.

Speaking to the News Agency, Agence France Presse, a car manufacturing employee in the Canadian province of Ontario said that people were “very afraid” of layoffs. Joel Solsky said: “I just bought my first home,” said Joel Solsky. “I may have to search for work elsewhere.”

It is the sector that can be severely affected by the new definition system in North America. Automotions may cross the border between the United States and Canada several times during the manufacturing process, and therefore taxes may be imposed on multiple occasions.

Doug Ford, Prime Minister of Ontario, whose boycott includes the home of the auto manufacturing industry in Canada, told reporters on Tuesday that it is expected that “assembly factories are closed on both sides of the border” as a result of the definitions.

The “reckless” definitions by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, whose president, Candice Ling warned that this step would force both Canada and the United States to “stagnate, job losses, and economic disasters.”

Ms. Ling warned that she would increase the prices of Americans, and forced American companies to find two alternative suppliers, which she said was “less reliable than Canadian participants.”

Canadian province leaders have pledged their own responses.

Ford has devised from Ontario the possibility of cutting Canadian electricity supplies and high -quality nickel exports to the United States, as well as a 25 % export imposition on electricity sent to the electrical homes in Michigan, New York and Minnesota.

Canada exports enough electricity to operate about six million American homes.

Ontario and other provinces also moved to remove alcohol from the United States from its shelves. In Nova Scotia, Prime Minister Tim Houston said that his boycott will prohibit American companies from giving bids on provinces contracts, as well as Will Ontario.

Ford has also announced that a contract of $ 100 million ($ 68 million; 55.1 pounds) will be canceled with Elon Musk online.

Meanwhile, China – which is now facing a 20 % tariff after Trump doubled a previous tax – pledged to fight any trade war on the “bitter end”. It has announced its counter -measures – including definitions on a group of American agricultural and food products.