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U.S. President Donald Trump said connected Saturday helium was expanding tariffs connected Canada by an additional 10% "above what they're paying now," as helium reacted again to an advertisement by Canada's Ontario province, a time aft it was aired during the World Series broadcast.
Trump connected Thursday ended commercialized talks with Ottawa over the tariff-related ad, which Trump said was misleading.
Trump announced the higher tariffs successful a Truth Social station connected Saturday referencing the ad, which features a video of erstwhile President Ronald Reagan, a Republican icon, saying that tariffs origin commercialized wars and economical disaster. The advertisement had already been moving for immoderate days earlier Trump archetypal reacted to it connected Thursday night.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said connected Friday that aft discussions with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Ontario would intermission the U.S. advertisement run connected Monday truthful that commercialized talks could resume.
The advertisement aired Friday during the broadcast for Game 1 of Major League Baseball's World Series, successful which the Toronto Blue Jays are facing disconnected against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
“Their Advertisement was to beryllium taken down, IMMEDIATELY, but they fto it tally past nighttime during the World Series, knowing that it was a FRAUD,” Trump posted.
“Because of their superior misrepresentation of the facts, and hostile act, I americium expanding the Tariff connected Canada by 10% implicit and supra what they are paying now,” helium wrote.
Trump posted the connection portion helium was aboard Air Force One connected his mode to Malaysia, the archetypal halt connected a travel done East Asia that volition mostly absorption connected commercialized issues.
The U.S. Commerce Department, the White House and the bureau of the Canadian premier curate did not instantly respond to requests for comment.
Most Canadian exports to US exempt from tariffs
It was not wide what goods would beryllium affected by Trump's recently announced tariffs. The bulk of Canadian exports to the U.S. are exempt from tariffs due to the fact that of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that was signed during Trump's archetypal term.
The Trump medication successful August imposed a 35% tariff on Canadian goods not covered by the USMCA. But Canada's system has suffered from assemblage tariffs of 50% imposed this twelvemonth by Trump connected alloy and aluminum from each countries.
Carney said connected Friday that Canada stood acceptable to resume commercialized talks with the United States. Trump and Carney volition some beryllium astatine the Association of Southeast Asian Nations acme successful Malaysia, but helium told reporters connected Air Force One helium has nary plans to conscionable with the Canadian leader.
The Canadian premier curate had removed astir of Canada's retaliatory tariffs connected U.S. imports imposed by his predecessor, but White House advisor Kevin Hassett said connected Friday that Trump was frustrated with Canada and commercialized talks person not been going well.
The advertisement by the Ontario authorities has a voiceover of Reagan criticizing tariffs connected overseas goods portion saying they origin occupation losses and commercialized wars. The video uses 5 implicit sentences from the five-minute play address, spliced unneurotic retired of sequence.
The advertisement does not notation that Reagan was utilizing the code to explicate that tariffs imposed connected Japan by his medication should beryllium seen arsenic a sadly unavoidable objection to his basal content successful escaped commercialized arsenic the cardinal to prosperity.
