Trump’s tariff confusion of the campaign to conservatives in Canada

Even late Thursday, it appears that Prime Minister Mark Carney may finally make it within a week of the current elections without stopping his campaign due to President Trump’s commercial attacks on Canada.

But instead of shaking hands with and issuing advertisements, he returned to Ottawa on Friday to chair a special meeting of the Council of Ministers, fighting with the relations of the United States and Canada.

The meeting, which produced a little new general information, follows another week of disturbances. Canada has a 25 percent revenge duty for cars and trucks made in the United States.

After indicators earlier this week from the White House they had planned to add an additional tariff to Canada when Mr. Trump announced mutual duties against most of the world, the president declined – somewhat. He stopped the most extreme global tariffs, those that sent stock markets down, and dropped additional fees against Canada.

But here is fishing: The United States still imposes a tariff on cars of 25 percent on cars, steel and aluminum from Canada, and any product has less content than North America, which is required by the Trade Agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico. Oil, gas and some minerals from Canada are still subject to a 10 percent tariff. While he was announcing a stop in most countries, Mr. Trump set the minimum tariff for goods from China – the third largest trading partner for the United States, after Mexico and Canada – by 145 percent.

The clear result is that the American definitions are now about 10 times, on average, as it was before Mr. Trump returned to the White House.

For Canada, Mr. Carney described the situation as “the best series of bad deals.”

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There are already victims. Stelantis stopped making Minivans Chryler and Dodge Muscle Cars in Windsor, Ontario, for two weeks, under about 3,200 of its employees. Canadian auto parts association estimate that between 10,000 to 12,000 other workers in its organs in Canada and the United States outside the work due to the closure.

On Friday, General Motors said he would stop working until October in a factory in the Ingressol, Ontario, making truck assemblies and batteries badly sold. A spokeswoman told me that the factory inactivity – which includes about 1,200 union workers, although 700 was previously demobilized – was not related to the definitions and that the company is committed to both the electric truck and the factory. Ounifor, the Workers’ Union, blame Mr. Trump’s relaxation for measures aimed at moving the United States towards electric cars.

Mr. Carney or anyone else in the government did not provide any details about how to use customs tariff funds. One of the experts I spoke with said that the disturbances created by Mr. Trump made it difficult to discover the future of the Canadian industry and therefore what should be preserved.

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In a profile, Norimitsu Onishi looks at how Pierre Poilievre, the conservative leader, has moved from being sure to become the next Prime Minister-he has made progress at 25 percentage points in opinion polls-to success against a liberal party again due to the crisis resulting from Trump.

“The Poilievre campaign, however, said relatively little about Mr. Trump and continued to focus on attacking the liberals” on crime and economic issues, as Nuri wrote. Analysts say that many voters link Mr. Poilievre to Mr. Trump, a link that has become a responsibility. “

Nuri also traveled to a large crowd, Mr. Poilievre, who was erected near Edmonton, where he found that the “message” of the good instinct of the conservative leader against the alleged corrupt elite resonated in Alberta, along with the neighboring Saskachio, “but at the same time,” the complexity of his efforts to strike voters in the battlefield in the battlefield.

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For Mr. Poilievre and Mr. Carney, what may be their final tests in the campaign – which ends with a vote on April 28 – will come next week with discussions in French and English.

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Ian Austin Reports on Canada for times based in Ottawa. It covers politics, culture and the people of Canada and has been informed in the country two decades ago. It can be reached in [email protected].

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