Trump adds 10% tariff Canada for Reagan trade ad

president Donald Trump He said Saturday he would impose an additional 10% tariff on imports from Canada in response to what he says is a misleading television ad featuring ex- President Ronald Reagan criticism Definitions.

“Canada was caught red-handed placing a fraudulent ad in Ronald Reagan’s tariff speech,” Trump tweeted. mail On social truth.

“Because of their dangerous misrepresentation of the facts and their aggressive action, I will increase the tariff on Canada by 10% above what they are paying now,” he wrote.

Canada generally pays a 35% tariff on goods sold in the United States, with exceptions for certain products covered under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, and exceptions for other specific products, such as steel and aluminium, for which a 50% tariff is imposed.

Late Friday, Trump criticized Ontario’s provincial government Canada To wait until after the first two games of World Series To pause Reagan’s announcement.

“They could have pulled it tonight,” Trump told reporters at the White House as he headed to Asia.

“Well, that’s a dirty play,” he said. “But I can play dirtier than them, you know.”

Trump cited the ad in his decision Thursday evening Trade negotiations with Canada.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford He said on Friday afternoon that he would pause the announcement on Monday so trade talks could resume.

But Ford also said: “I have directed my team to continue putting our message in front of the Americans over the weekend so we can air our commercial during the first two World Series games.”

Trump said Friday night that he heard Ontario would withdraw the ad.

But he also said he did not know the government would leave the matter until Monday.

The ad aired Friday night during the broadcast of Game 1 of the World Series to millions of Americans.

The Canadian Toronto Blue Jays won that game 11-4 over the American Los Angeles Dodgers.

Toronto, located in Ontario, is Ford’s birthplace.

“It was always our intention to start a conversation about the type of economy Americans want to build and the impact of tariffs on workers and businesses,” Ford said in a tweet earlier Friday announcing the pause on the ad.

“We achieved our goal, reaching the American public at the highest levels,” Ford said, apparently referring to Trump.

“In his conversation with the Prime Minister [Mark] He said Carney, Ontario, would pause its U.S. advertising campaign starting Monday so trade talks could resume.

Trump halted trade talks with Canada after allegations Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute That the ad misrepresents Reagan’s radio speech on April 25, 1987, and that his remarks were edited without permission.

The foundation posted a video of the speech on YouTube and urged people to watch it in full.

Ford responded to that criticism earlier Friday by tweeting a link to the same video.

In it, Reagan discusses his recent imposition of new tariffs “on certain Japanese products in response to Japan’s inability to enforce its trade agreement with us on electronic devices called semiconductors.”

This context is missing from the Ontario Declaration. But the ad accurately depicts Reagan saying, “In the long run, such trade barriers hurt every American worker and consumer.”

The ad also shows Reagan, from the same speech, saying: “When someone says, ‘Let’s put tariffs on foreign imports,’ he sounds like he’s doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes, for a little while, that works — but only for a little while.”

“High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the provocation of fierce trade wars,” Reagan said in his speech and in the declaration.

Ford, who calls himself a “huge Ronald Reagan fan,” first posted the ad on X on Oct. 16, days after he said the Ontario government would spend $75 million to run the ad in the United States.

“We will repeat this message to every Republican district across the country,” Ford said.

Trump was angry about the announcement in a post on Truth Social on Friday morning.

“Canada cheated and got caught!!! They fraudulently received a big purchase ad saying Ronald Reagan doesn’t like tariffs, when in fact he likes our country’s tariffs and its national security,” Trump wrote.

“Canada is trying to illegally influence the United States Supreme Court in one of the most important rulings in our country’s history. Canada has long cheated on tariffs, charging our farmers with duties of up to 400%. Now they, and other countries, cannot benefit from the United States anymore. Thank you to the Ronald Reagan Foundation for exposing this fraud.”

The Supreme Court in early November is scheduled to hear oral arguments in a case that will determine whether Trump has the authority under the law to impose sweeping tariffs against dozens of countries, including Canada, without congressional approval.