The White House released a statement after Canada announced its counter-tariffs, saying that the US was prepared to offer Canada “the most preferential market access of any country on Earth” in recent trade talks.<\/p>\n
“Instead of partnership, Canada chose unreasonable demands, walk-backs, and flat-out rejection,” it said.<\/p>\n
In a series of Tuesday posts on Truth Social, Trump also accused Canada of “ripping off” the US for decades and of charging American farmers steep tariffs. <\/p>\n
“I deal with many countries, and Canada is easily the most difficult and unreasonable,” Trump wrote. “They feel entitled, but they are not a State, and will be entitled no longer!”<\/p>\n
He suggested that he will change the name of Lake Ontario, one of the Great Lakes on the US-Canada border, to Lake America, writing: “We don’t expect to doing much business with Ontario any longer.”<\/p>\n
Trump threatened this week to hike US tariffs on Canadian automobiles to 50% as of 1 January. <\/p>\n
Prime Minister Mark Carney responded by accusing Trump of wanting to “destroy” Canadian industries including the automobile manufacturing and steel and aluminum sectors. <\/p>\n
Public rhetoric on both sides reached a fever pitch on Monday, but some officials struck a more diplomatic tone on Tuesday with hopes that talks could be resumed.<\/p>\n
After calling Trump a “loser” on Monday at a news conference, Ontario Premier Doug Ford acknowledged in an interview with CNN that “things got a little heated”.<\/p>\n
“But I want to make a deal \u2014 a good deal for the American people, a good deal for Canadians,” Ford said.<\/p>\n
The escalation also puts into question the future of a North American free trade pact between Canada, the US and Mexico called the USMCA. <\/p>\n
President Claudia Sheinbaum had despatched her economy secretary, Marcelo Ebrard, to Washington for emergency talks after trade negotiations collapsed with Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White House released a statement after Canada announced its counter-tariffs, saying that the US was prepared to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-749636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749636","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=749636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}