{"id":221932,"date":"2025-10-24T05:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/221932\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T05:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:20:07","slug":"trump-says-he-is-ending-trade-negotiations-with-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/221932\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he is ending trade negotiations with Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Donald Trump said he had ended trade talks with Canada in retaliation for an anti-tariff advertising campaign launched by the province of Ontario, triggering a new commercial crisis with America\u2019s northern neighbour.<\/p>\n

The US president announced the move on Thursday night in a Truth Social post, complaining that ads aired in the US included the voice of former Republican president Ronald Reagan \u201cspeaking negatively about tariffs\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cTARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE USA,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cBased on their egregious behaviour, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s move threatens an abrupt rupture in his relationship with Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, who had steadied ties with the White House in recent months.<\/p>\n

But Ontario\u2019s premier Doug Ford, who has been an outspoken critic<\/a> of Trump\u2019s tariffs<\/a>, has been championing the ads, which feature a radio address from former US president Ronald Reagan in 1987, where he describes such levies as detrimental in the long term.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the prime minister\u2019s office and Ford\u2019s office declined to comment. <\/p>\n

Carney this month flew to Washington<\/a> to meet Trump in the White House in an effort to mend fractious bilateral relations and rescue a C$1.3tn ($928bn) trading relationship.<\/p>\n

Trump has imposed 35 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods excluded from the US, Mexico and Canada free trade agreement. The US president also put duties of up to 50 per cent on steel and aluminium as well as anti-dumping levies and tariffs on softwood lumber.<\/p>\n

Ford launched the television advertising campaign in the US targeting Republican voters this month.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a big Ronald Reagan fan,\u201d Ford said last week, adding that he wanted to take the former president\u2019s words on tariffs \u201cand blast it to the American people\u201d. <\/p>\n

But the move triggered Trump\u2019s fury. \u201cThey only did this to interfere with the decision of the Supreme Court, and other courts,\u201d the US president said in the Truth Social post.<\/p>\n

It referred to a case before America\u2019s highest federal court on the legality of Trump\u2019s levies on imports, based on emergency economic powers this year. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe president is thin-skinned, we know this. But I thought the tone of the ads were civil,\u201d said Flavio Volpe, the president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers\u2019 Association and member of the Canada-U.S. Relations Council.<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s Ontario-based automotive industry, which has also been hit by tariffs, is facing closures and major job losses after Trump called for the repatriation of US carmakers.<\/p>\n

The breakdown in trade talks<\/a> between the US and Canada comes ahead of Trump\u2019s trip to Asia, where he will attempt to defuse a flare-up in tensions with China during a planned meeting with President Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday night, Carney, during a televised address to the nation, unveiled plans to double Canadian exports to markets outside the US by 2035. \u201cWe won\u2019t transform our economy easily or in a few months,\u00a0it will take some sacrifices and it will take some time,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

In a statement posted on X, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, said the Ontario ad \u201cmisrepresents\u201d Reagan\u2019s audio address, and complained that the province did not \u201cseek nor receive permission\u201d to use the remarks. The organisation added that it was \u201creviewing its legal options in this matter\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-221932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}