What U.S. products are Canada targeting in response to Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum?

Darren Major · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 13, 2025 12:13 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 infinitesimal ago

Canada retaliated with a caller acceptable of counter-tariffs Thursday aft U.S. President Donald Trump slapped a 25 per cent levy connected alloy and aluminum coming into the U.S. 

The national authorities targeted $29.8 cardinal worthy of U.S. goods. This is successful summation to the archetypal question of counter-tariffs — connected $30 cardinal worthy of U.S. products — that Ottawa levied past week.

WATCH | Canada announces $29.8B successful retaliatory tariffs: 

Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc, the government's constituent idiosyncratic connected Canada-U.S. relations, said Trump's onslaught connected Canadian manufacture is "unjustified and unjustifiable" and the authorities indispensable retaliate arsenic the U.S. inserts "disruption and disorder" into what was erstwhile 1 of the astir palmy trading relationships successful the world.

"We volition not basal idly by portion our iconic alloy and aluminum industries are being unfairly targeted," helium said.

The bulk of the caller counter-tariffs are connected U.S. alloy and aluminum products. They are portion of the full $155-billion counter-tariff bundle Ottawa had antecedently prepared. Here's a breakdown of what U.S. imports are being taxed arsenic of Thursday:

• Candles.
• Glues.
• Umbrellas.
• Walking sticks and canes.
• Ceramic, formed iron, aluminum and alloy kitchenware.
• Other ceramics, including statues.
• Gold, platinum and different precious metals.
• Pearls.
• Imitation jewelry. 
• Steel, aluminum and iron, including dozens of semi-manufactured items made from those materials, specified as: bars, rods, wire, plating, sheets, pipes and pipeline materials, rails and ingots.
• Fluid tanks and vats, including for gas.
• Steel and robust operation materials, specified arsenic screws and bolts.
• Sewing and knitting items, specified arsenic needles, made from robust and steel.
• Safety pins and springs.
• Radiators, heaters and parts utilized for stoves.
• Iron and alloy wool and cloth.
• Steel and robust sinks and baths.
• Steel, robust and aluminum parts utilized for construction, specified arsenic doorway and model frames, span sections and scaffolding.
• Aluminum nails, tacks and staples.
• Garden and different household tools, including: shovels, picks, rakes, axes, shears and hoes.
• Metal instrumentality utilized for mountaineering, specified arsenic axes, billhooks and hammers.
• Metal moving and operation tools specified as: saw blades, files, tube cutters, vices and clamps, anvils and different forge materials.
• Mining tools, including boring drills.
• Safes, filing cabinets, padlocks and keys.
• Metal fittings utilized successful gathering and infrastructure construction, and fittings utilized to marque furniture.
• Metal fittings utilized successful stationary items, specified arsenic binders.
• Bells, metallic representation frames and metallic ornaments, specified arsenic statutes.
• Metal items utilized for covering and accessories, specified arsenic buckles, clasps and rivets.
• Metal plating utilized for signs and lettering.
• Water heaters.
• Electronics specified arsenic printers, copiers, data-processing machines and information retention units.
• Portable lamps.
• Cellphones and portable telephone sets.
• Audio and ocular equipment, including: microphones, microphone stands, speakers, amplifiers, headphones and monitors.
• Car windshields and windows.
• Wristwatches and stopwatches. 
• Wooden furnishings parts.
• Sleeping bags.
• LED and different illuminated signs.
• Glass and integrative parts utilized for searchlights.
• Prefabricated buildings made of wood and steel. Also prefabbed retention silos oregon parts of silos made from integrative and solid materials.
• Kids tricycles, scooters, doll carriages and different akin toys with wheels.
• Video crippled consoles.
• Some vacation decorations.
• Sports equipment, including: skis, h2o skis, immoderate golfing equipment, array tennis gear, sporting rackets, assorted sporting balls, sportfishing equipment.
• Amusement parkland rides.
• Brooms and brushes, including: hairsbreadth brushes, combs, creation brushes, overgarment rollers, instrumentality brushes, level sweepers and mops.
• Travel sets that see toiletry, sewing and different cleaning items.
• Chalk and achromatic boards.
• Labellers.
• Smoking lighters and pipes.
• Toilet sprays.
• Camera tripods, bipods and monopods.