Trump threatening 35% tariffs on Canadian goods across the board

Darren Major · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 10, 2025 8:46 PM EDT | Last Updated: July 11

U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to slap a 35 per cent tariff connected each Canadian goods arsenic the 2 countries person been engaged successful negotiations to scope immoderate benignant of commercialized agreement.

Trump's latest menace came successful a missive to Prime Minister Mark Carney that the president posted to his societal media site, Truth Social, connected Thursday evening.

"There volition beryllium nary tariff if Canada, oregon companies wrong your country, determine to manufacture merchandise wrong the United States," the missive read.

Trump said the tariffs volition instrumentality effect connected Aug. 1, and wrote that helium volition summation the levies if Canada retaliates.

Trump and Carney person been locked successful negotiations to travel to immoderate benignant of commercialized solution by July 21. Carney's bureau said helium had received the letter, and the premier curate said successful a societal media station helium was committed to defending Canadian workers and businesses.

While Carney said Canada would negociate to the revised deadline date, helium besides added the state was "strengthening our commercialized partnerships passim the world."

In his letter, Trump again cited fentanyl "pouring" into the U.S. from Canada — adjacent though information continues to amusement that minimal amounts of the cause are crossing the Canada-U.S. borderline compared to the U.S.'s southern border.

Trump has been complaining astir fentanyl crossing the bluish borderline since helium was re-elected successful November. After taking office, helium imposed tariffs helium said are designed to punish Canada for not doing capable to ace down connected the fentanyl cause trade.

Carney said successful his connection that Canada had made "vital progress" successful stemming the travel of fentanyl.

"We are committed to continuing to enactment with the United States to prevention lives and support communities successful some our countries," helium said.

Now, the president seems to beryllium taking the border-related tariffs a measurement further by promising a 35 per cent levy. The U.S. is presently imposing a 25 per cent tariff connected each non-CUSMA compliant goods coming from Canada and a little 10 per cent complaint connected vigor and potash arsenic portion of a border-related tariffs regime.

Ottawa announced a $1.3-billion concern successful borderline information and named a fentanyl czar to code the concerns coming from the White House.

The U.S. has besides deed Canadian steel, aluminum and autos with an import levy, which person been peculiarly damaging to the Canadian economy, starring to occupation losses and a driblet successful exports.

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Trade negotiations underway

Trump has besides been promising to slap a 50 per cent tariff connected copper coming into the U.S. According to federal data, Canada exported immoderate $9.3 cardinal worthy of copper and copper-based products successful 2023, with a bulk of that — 52 per cent — going to the U.S. China and Japan followed, with 17 and 12 per cent of Canadian exports, respectively.

Although helium chiefly cited fentanyl successful his Thursday letter, Trump besides listed different irritants, specified arsenic Canada's proviso absorption system.

Carney and Trump person been having nonstop conversations with each other, and the 2 agreed to effort to resolve commercialized disputes this period erstwhile the president was successful Alberta for the G7 acme successful June.

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said conscionable Thursday greeting that she was hopeful an statement could beryllium reached by the July 21 deadline.

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"This is an effort that we are putting each our value behind, it is indispensable for the wellness of our economy," Anand told reporters from Malaysia, wherever she is attending the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) acme arsenic portion of a circuit of the Indo-Pacific region.

"We are inactive hopeful that an statement tin beryllium achieved."

Trump targets other countries with threatening letters

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre took to societal media Thursday evening to blast the latest tariff menace arsenic "unjustified."

"All Canadians indispensable travel unneurotic to support our economy. Conservatives basal acceptable to bash everything we tin to unafraid the champion woody for Canada," helium wrote successful a station connected X.

"Our state stands united."

Lara Payne, president of Unifor, which represents immoderate 320,000 employees including car and alloy workers, characterized it arsenic "extortion."

"Workers are counting connected our [government] to support their jobs," said Payne. "Concessions won't halt a bully, but corporate spot will."

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Last week, the Liberal authorities announced it would rescind its integer services taxation connected the eve it was to instrumentality effect. Trump demanded the taxation beryllium eliminated and chopped disconnected Canada-U.S. commercialized negotiations conscionable days earlier the announcement.

Trump's missive to Carney was posted conscionable a time aft the president posted aggregate different letters to societal media, threatening tariffs connected different countries, including: Brazil, the Philippines, Brunei, Moldova, Algeria, Libya, Iraq and Sri Lanka.