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Source: AFP
Canada said it would enforce a 25 percent tariff connected immoderate autos imported from the United States, retaliating against President Donald Trump's levies that came into impact connected Thursday.
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced "25 percent tariffs connected each vehicles imported from the United States that are not compliant with CUSMA," utilizing the Canadian acronym for an existing North America escaped commercialized agreement.
It was not instantly wide what percent of US conveyance imports would beryllium impacted.
Canada was mostly spared from the sweeping planetary tariffs Trump announced Wednesday, arsenic Washington granted an exemption to goods compliant with the US-Canada-Mexico escaped commercialized agreement, which covers astir products.
But Canada, which is America's largest trading partner, is inactive facing steel, aluminum and different products successful summation to autos.
Carney said Trump's commercialized warfare "will rupture the planetary economy."
"The strategy of planetary commercialized anchored successful the United States that Canada has relied connected since the extremity of the Second World War... is over," Carney said.
"The 80 twelvemonth play erstwhile the United States embraced the mantle of planetary economical leadership, forged alliances rooted successful spot and communal respect, championed the escaped and unfastened speech of goods and services is over," Carney added, calling the improvement "a tragedy."
Carney and Trump spoke by telephone past week. They agreed Washington and Ottawa should negociate the aboriginal of bilateral commercialized aft Canada's April 28 election.
Source: AFP
