Canada not on Trump's list of countries subject to 10% ‘baseline’ tariffs

Independent concern lobbyist connected Trump’s ‘stupid chart’

Dan Kelly, the president and CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, has summed up frustrations astir however Trump announced the tariffs.

“I can’t judge the full satellite is trying to larn wherever their economies are headed by straining to spot a anserine illustration held by the president,” Kelly wrote successful a station connected X.

Trump volition ‘single-handedly’ unopen down U.S. car industry

With Trump inactive speaking, car manufacture leaders are reacting to the quality that the U.S. volition enforce a 25 per cent tariff connected imported vehicles starting astatine midnight.

Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers'​ Association and a subordinate of the Prime Minister’s Council connected Canada-U.S. Relations, enactment it simply.

“He volition single-handedly unopen down the American car industry,” Volpe wrote connected X.

David Adams, the president and CEO of Global Automakers of Canada, urged the authorities to enactment with the car manufacture to travel up with a cautious and effectual effect to “these unjustified tariffs.”

“Tariffs are taxes that wounded consumers by expanding costs, driving up ostentation and unfairly impacting workers connected some sides of the border,” helium wrote.

Trump hails 1913 ‘when we were a tariff country’

I'm a elder writer with the Parliamentary bureau successful Ottawa. Trump said again contiguous that the United States was amended disconnected successful 1913 — earlier the U.S. had a national income taxation and backmost erstwhile tariffs were a important root of authorities revenue. The president has argued this before.

"We were astatine our richest from 1870 to 1913," Trump said successful February portion signing enforcement orders successful the Oval Office. "That's erstwhile we were a tariff country."

But arsenic I've written before, arsenic measured by GDP per capita, the United States is six times richer present than it was successful 1913. It's existent that the U.S. didn't person an income taxation earlier 1913, but the United States besides didn't person the modern authorities that it built implicit the past century.

Over the past century, the United States and Canada person besides built an progressively integrated North American system — bolstered by a bid of escaped commercialized agreements, the past of which was signed by Trump himself conscionable six years ago. And portion tariffs volition make gross for the U.S. government, the fees volition beryllium paid by American importers — and past by American consumers successful the signifier of higher prices.

10% 'minimum baseline' tariff

Trump is listing the tariff percentages helium volition beryllium charging assorted countries. Here are immoderate of them:

• China: 34 per cent.
• EU: 20 per cent.
• Vietnam: 46 per cent.
• Taiwan: 32 per cent.
• Japan: 24 per cent.

Canada and Mexico are not connected the illustration helium is holding, the CBC’s Katie Simpson confirmed from the Rose Garden.

He said the tariffs are "not a afloat reciprocal — I could person done that but it would person been pugnacious for galore countries."

He did accidental determination would beryllium a 10-per cent "minimum baseline" tariff, though it's not wide if that is connected apical of the percentages helium conscionable listed.

“I’d similar to spot the illustration if you person it. Can you bring it up, Howard?”

Trump astatine 1 constituent work from a alternatively ample illustration that mightiness beryllium fractional his size — courtesy of U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick — showing which countries volition beryllium targeted successful his reciprocal tariff blitz.

Going down the list, you tin spot China, the EU, Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan, India, South Korea, Thailand, Switzerland, Indonesia, Malaysia and Cambodia, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Brazil and Bangladesh.

Canada was not connected the chart.

Trump’s excavation astatine Canada: ‘We don’t similar it and it’s not fair’

Trump is moving done his grievances with different countries — Chinese and Japanese atom tariffs, Europe and cars, the commercialized shortage with Mexico and Vietnamese and Thai commercialized protections.

And helium momentarily paused connected Canada. He referred to Canada's restrictions connected dairy imports, successful the signifier of a tariff-rate quota wherever lone acceptable amounts tin beryllium imported tariff-free, arsenic portion of the proviso absorption strategy that besides includes eggs and poultry, which is really included successful the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement that Trump himself negotiated.

Trump referred to ample tariffs that footwear successful beyond that limit, portion omitting a applicable detail: that the U.S. doesn't really deed that threshold, meaning it hasn't paid those tariffs.

“We don’t similar it and it’s not fair," Trump said of Canada's commercialized protections.

“At what constituent bash we say, ‘You’ve gotta enactment for yourselves?’”

The nationalist information argument

‘We're truly not taking it anymore’

My workfellow Holly Cabrera has debunked immoderate of Trump's claims connected Canada's proviso absorption strategy of eggs, poultry and dairy.

She recovered that contempt Trump downplaying however overmuch of an export marketplace Canada is for the U.S., the state has been consistently 1 of the apical importers of U.S. cultivation products, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Last year, Canada was the second-highest importer of U.S. dairy products, buying astir $1.14 cardinal US, and it was the United States' apical export marketplace for eggs and related products.

Trump takes purpose astatine Canada's dairy sector

"Canada, by the way, imposes a 250 to 300 per cent tariff connected galore of our dairy products," Trump said.

"We don't similar it and it's not just to our farmers and our country…. We subsidize and support them going," helium added.

It’s a enactment he’s often repeated. But for astir dairy imports, Canada lone taxes goods anyplace adjacent that precocious if they transcend a quota that is rarely, if ever, met.

Trump repeated his assertion that the U.S. has a $200-billion commercialized shortage with Canada. Data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that is false.

U.S. has been 'looted, pillaged' by nations 'both person and foe'

Trump is wearing a agleam reddish necktie and carried a Make America Great Again chapeau into the Rose Garden.

At the podium, helium said his enforcement bid volition enforce reciprocal tariffs connected each trading partners.

"That means they bash it to america and we bash it to them — precise simple. Can't get simpler than that," Trump said.

"For decades, our state has been looted, pillaged, raped by nations adjacent and acold some person and foe," helium said.

"Jobs successful information volition travel roaring backmost into our country."