US President Donald Trump has slapped 50% tariffs on a broad range of Canadian imports, citing what he called Ottawa’s “unequal treatment” of American cars, dairy products, and alcohol.
Trump’s use of emergency powers to impose sweeping tariffs was partly struck down by the US Supreme Court earlier this year. He invoked Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to impose the new duties.
The tariffs will take effect in 30 days and apply even to goods covered by the USA-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement (USMCA), the White House announced on Monday.
The move marks the latest escalation in a trade war that has intensified since Trump’s return to the White House. Washington has already imposed tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum, automobiles, and other imports.
Ottawa has responded with counter-tariffs and other retaliatory measures.
The new duties target a range of consumer and industrial products, including wine, hockey sticks, and cement. Key Canadian exports such as energy, potash, fish, and critical minerals are exempt, according to a White House fact sheet.
Washington argues that Canada unfairly taxes certain US-made vehicles, maintains protectionist barriers on dairy imports, and continues provincial boycotts of American alcoholic beverages.
The administration said those measures amount to “discriminatory treatment” of US products. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney condemned the move, accusing Washington of violating the USMCA while leaving the door open to negotiations.
This is the latest in a series of unilateral US trade actions that began with the US imposing a series of tariffs in direct violation of the trade agreement, Carney said in a statement on Monday. We stand ready to intensify those discussions in the coming weeks.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford urged Ottawa to respond in kind. “If these tariffs proceed, Canada should respond tariff for tariff, dollar for dollar,” he wrote on X.
Earlier this month, Trump threatened additional tariffs on Canada, claiming its poor forest management had blanketed parts of the US in wildfire smoke and that Canada should pay for its alleged “willful negligence.”
Announcing the new tariffs, the White House said Canada and China were the only countries to retaliate against the duties imposed last year. It also accused Ottawa of discriminating against US producers.
“Canada has taken US alcohol products off Canadian shelves,” US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said, adding that the new tariffs were intended to “hold Canada accountable for its retaliation and discrimination.”
Ottawa responded to Trump’s trade offensive in 2025 with 25% duties on about C$30 billion ($21.7 billion) worth of US goods. While Mark Carney later rolled some of those back, tariffs on American cars, steel, and aluminum remain in force.
The latest move is part of a sweeping tariff drive launched after Trump’s return to office in January 2025. He has imposed duties on imports from allies and rivals alike, targeting countries including China, Canada and Mexico, as well as steel, aluminum, and automobiles.
RT.com / ABC Flash Point News 2026.
According to an American investment company the USA owns 53 % of Canada the UK 11 % regardless Donald is acting out his megalomania /supremacist part well . The State Department classifies every country as Foreign including Canada . Donald has it in his head that he rules the world and going by the many western countries who while not liking him acquiesce to his wishes he has a point . This just increases his believe that he is correct compounding the fact that his obsessional neurosis’s are in fact “normal behavior ” in his mind. In days of old… Read more »
I thought the British Royal House owned all the land in Canada?
In reality in financial terms America owns a lot of the actual infrastructure built on “Crown Land ” you are referring to . Yes the Royal Family “own” those lands but money accruing from it goes to the Canadian Government not sent to the UK . Crown Land cannot be sold but passes down the Line of Accession to the next monarch . All logging/mineral rights etc on the Land Revenues also go back to the Government in Canada. Each Canadian State has variations in Local Land Laws including selling Crown Land via “The Ministry of Forests,Lands and Natural Resource… Read more »
Good points.
The delusional king donnie is talking again, and no one cares what he says.