Canada will from Sunday impose retaliatory tariffs on billions of U.S. goods in response to President Donald Trump‘s duties on steel and aluminium imports.
Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s foreign minister, said Ottawa will slap tariffs on $12.6 billion of U.S. exports starting tomorrow.
“We will not escalate, and we will not back down,” Freeland said.
Freeland said she spoke six times this week to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer about how to resolve the dispute over the impending tariffs that will hit a wide range of U.S. products.
She said she remains confident that “common sense will prevail.”
Freeland called the U.S. tariffs being imposed for national security reasons as “not only absurd, it’s hurtful.”
In March, Trump announced tariffs of 25 percent steel imports and 10 percent on aluminium over national security concerns. He had exempted allies such…
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