{"id":940842,"date":"2026-10-21T03:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T03:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940842\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T03:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T03:56:12","slug":"trump-walks-back-threat-to-ban-bombardier-sales-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940842\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump walks back threat to ban Bombardier sales in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.S. President Donald Trump has backed down on a threat to ban Bombardier plane sales in the United States, allowing the aerospace sector to breathe a sigh of relief after tempers flared and tariffs rose in an escalation of the trade war last month.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a campaign rally Monday night, Trump said he’s changed his perception of the Montreal-based business jet maker as a purely Canadian manufacturer.<\/p>\n

“I’m going to be helping a certain air company get themselves straightened away,” he told a crowd in a suburb of Wichita, Kan., where Bombardier employs 1,500 workers.<\/p>\n

“I always viewed them as a Canadian company … but now I find out they have a presence here, and we’re not hurting them if they’re in Kansas. So we’ll take care of those people, all right? And the jobs.”<\/p>\n

Wichita serves as the home base of Bombardier’s defence division. The company employs about 3,500 American workers across plants in Kansas, Texas, California and other states.<\/p>\n

WATCH | Trump lashes out at Bombardier:\"\"<\/p>\n

Trump tells Bombardier it can’t sell in the U.S. unless it builds in the U.S.<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump said in a social media post Monday that Montreal-based jet maker Bombardier would no longer be allowed to sell in the United States unless it started manufacturing there, even though the company does have a manufacturing footprint in the country.Republican stronghold Kansas now a battleground<\/p>\n

Kansans are already feeling first-hand the effects of the president’s policies. Midwestern farmers have seen the diesel that powers their tractors and combines rise to near-record prices due to the Iran war. Kansas has now turned into a political battleground as Republicans and Democrats fight for control of the typically red state ahead of next month’s midterm elections.<\/p>\n

Trump said Monday that a phone call from Kansas Republican Sen. Roger Marshall helped convince him to walk back his threat against Bombardier. Polls show Marshall is running neck and neck with Adam Hamilton, a Democrat in a state that has not elected one to the Senate since 1932.<\/p>\n

Last month, Trump suggested he would bar Bombardier aircraft sales in the United States unless it moved its operations there, despite the harm experts said such a move would inflict on American workers.<\/p>\n

“NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES!” he posted on social media on Sept. 7. “If they want our Market, they must build here, and stop treating America like a ‘piggybank.”‘<\/p>\n

Bombardier spells out U.S. commitment<\/p>\n

Bombardier responded that it pays more than $2.5 billion US to some 2,800 American suppliers across 47 states each year, indirectly supporting tens of thousands of jobs.<\/p>\n

“The American aerospace industry is a clear winner on trade and exports,” Bombardier stated in September, adopting the language of the president and his fixation on triumph and trade surpluses.<\/p>\n

Last week, the company inaugurated a skills development centre for new aircraft technicians and mechanics in Wichita, part of a $50-million US investment in the site.<\/p>\n

“Our recently announced investments and newly inaugurated North American Learning Center will support high-skilled jobs for many years to come,” a spokesperson for Bombardier said Tuesday in a statement to CBC News. “We are proud of our engaged workforce in Wichita as well as in all 20-plus states [where] Bombardier employs team members.” <\/p>\n

America enjoys a $109-billion US aerospace and defence trade surplus with the world, according to the U.S. Aerospace Industries Association.<\/p>\n

WATCH | Bombardier crucial to both Canada and the U.S., minister says:\"\"<\/p>\n

Bombardier important for Canada and U.S., Fuhr says following Trump threats<\/p>\n

Asked about U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat that Bombardier’s planes shouldn’t be sold in the U.S., Secretary of State for Defence Procurement Stephen Fuhr said the Montreal-based jet maker is important for both countries and ’employs tens of thousands of people in the United States.’<\/p>\n

Bombardier does the final assembly of its Challenger and Global business jets in Canada, while more than half of its revenue stems from American customers.<\/p>\n

“We view the removal of this regulatory uncertainty as positive for sentiment as it alleviates an important headline overhang for investors,” said James McGarragle, an analyst at RBC Dominion Securities.<\/p>\n

Trump’s threat did not have a “tangible impact” on demand for the luxury jets among American customers over the past six weeks, he added.<\/p>\n

Bombardier shares rose $13.85 US or about 4.5 per cent to close at $325.32 US on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Despite U.S. tariffs on steel, aluminum and other goods, aerospace manufacturing remains deeply integrated across the continent and beyond.<\/p>\n

Most Bombardier planes feature at least 40 per cent U.S. content, analysts say. More than half of the value of the ultra-long-range Global 7500 luxury jet derives from American parts.<\/p>\n

Blocking a major manufacturer from the market would “undoubtedly” cause revenue and job losses at American parts producers, said National Bank analyst Cameron Doerksen last month.<\/p>\n

A ban would have also been “massively disruptive” to the many American jet fleet operators awaiting Bombardier deliveries, he said.<\/p>\n

Trump’s fist-shaking went down a day before Ottawa’s retaliatory tariffs on American goods took effect on Sept. 8, a response to the 50 per cent duties Washington imposed on Canadian goods in August.<\/p>\n

Trump then proceeded to ban most Canadian alcoholic drinks, some dairy products and motorcycles, among other products, and slapped a 50 per cent levy on more items.<\/p>\n

Trump’s September Truth Social post marked the second time this year Bombardier has come into the president’s crosshairs.<\/p>\n

In January, he singled out Bombardier in a threat to ground all Canadian-made aircraft and slap them with a 50 per cent tariff unless Ottawa approved Gulfstream business jets \u2014 assembled in Savannah, Ga. \u2014 marking an earlier escalation of trade tensions between the two countries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-940842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}