President Trump says he’s ending all commerce negotiations with Canada over an advert marketing campaign that includes a clip of former President Ronald Reagan denouncing tariffs.
Trump claims the advert is designed to sway the forthcoming U.S. Supreme Courtroom arguments over his sweeping taxes on imports, though it’s not clear the way it may need any influence on the justices.
“Tariffs are very important to the national security, and economy of the U.S.A.,” Trump wrote on his social media website. “Based on their egregious behavior, all trade negotiations with Canada are hereby terminated.”
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Friday sought to brush off Trump’s menace and vowed to maintain working to move off a spiraling tit-for-tat commerce warfare between two of the world’s closest allies and buying and selling companions.
“We stand ready to … build on that progress when the Americans are ready,” Carney stated. “It will be to the benefit of workers in the United States, workers in Canada and families in both of our countries.”
President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney converse to reporters within the Oval Workplace of the White Home on October 07, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs)
Doug Ford, the premier of the Canadian province of Ontario, stood by the advert, which was produced by the province’s authorities and consists of Reagan calling without spending a dime commerce in a 1987 speech.
“Canada and the United States are friends, neighbours and allies,” Ford tweeted Friday. “President Ronald Reagan knew that we are stronger together.”
Trump confirmed no indicators of backing down both, charging that the advert twists Reagan’s phrases and his true stance on commerce and tariffs.
“Actually (Reagan) loved tariffs for our country and its national security,” Trump posted.
Carney has just lately sought to calm tensions with Trump but additionally goals to double his nation’s exports to international locations exterior the U.S. due to the menace posed by Trump’s tariffs.
The theat to chop off negotiations might additional inflame commerce tensions that have already got been constructing between the 2 neighboring international locations for months.
The Supreme Courtroom case talked about by Trump is ready for oral arguments subsequent month. The conservative justices will mull the legality of the sweeping and unpredictable taxes on imports he has has imposed on a wide range of nations, together with some like Brazil with which the U.S. has a commerce surplus.
Tariffs are taxes levied in opposition to firms that import items from overseas nations. Economists say firms haven’t any selection however to finally move on all taxes to shoppers, though they might search to delay worth hikes to cushion the influence on gross sales.
Carney met with Trump earlier this month to attempt to ease commerce tensions and the 2 leaders are anticipated to satisfy once more at a forthcoming summit in Asia.
The 2 international locations and Mexico are in search of to forge a brand new model of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Settlement, which Trump negotiated in his first time period however now says is unfair to the U.S.
About $2.7 billion price of products and providers are exchanged throughout the northern border each day.
