Does Canada really have tariffs above 200% on US dairy products?

(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump said past week that Canada has tariffs successful spot astatine supra 200% connected dairy products imported from the U.S.

"Canada is cheating the United States Farmers connected USMCA," Trump wrote successful a Friday station connected Truth Social. "In 2024, Canada retained Tariffs connected assorted U.S. Goods, peculiarly successful protected sectors similar Dairy that are operated nether a proviso absorption system. Some examples of Canadian Tariffs connected U.S. Dairy extracurricular of the constricted quota include: Milk: Up to 243% …. Butter: Up to 298% …. Cheese: Up to 245%."

It’s a small much complicated.

Those Canadian tariffs connected U.S. dairy imports use lone aft the U.S. hits a level of tariff-free sales.

It was a deal Trump negotiated successful 2018 during his archetypal word successful office.

CNN reports that successful galore categories, including milk, the U.S. is not adjacent astatine fractional of the zero-tariff maximum.

“It is close that Canada imposes a tariff of astir 250% connected U.S. exports of definite dairy products into Canada, and adjacent much with Canada’s 25% retaliatory tariffs successful place,” a March 7 connection from the International Dairy Foods Association work successful part. “However, that tariff would lone use if we were capable to scope and transcend the quota connected U.S. dairy exports agreed to nether the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Frustratingly, the U.S. has ne'er gotten adjacent to exceeding our USMCA quotas due to the fact that Canada has erected assorted protectionist measures that alert successful the look of their commercialized obligations made nether USMCA.”

Trump has fixed a assortment of explanations for targeting Canada successful caller weeks. He has said that his abstracted 25% tariffs connected each imports from Canada, immoderate of which are suspended for a month, are astir fentanyl smuggling and objections to Canada putting precocious taxes connected dairy imports that penalize U.S. farmers.