Trump going ahead with tariffs on autos starting next week

U.S. President Donald Trump is dealing different tariff stroke to Canada, signing an enforcement bid connected Wednesday that volition deed each non-U.S. made autos with hefty import levies.

Trump said the United States volition beryllium applying a 25 per cent tariff connected those imports, but it's not wide erstwhile they would apply.

The president said the car tariffs volition footwear successful connected April 2 but suggested they could commencement astatine a basal complaint of 2.5 per cent.

"What we're going to beryllium doing is simply a 25 per cent tariff connected each cars that are not made successful the United States. If they're made successful the United States, determination is perfectly nary tariff. We'll commencement disconnected with a 2.5 per cent base, which is what we were at, and we'll spell to 25 per cent," Trump told reporters successful the Oval Office.

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