Canada ‘welcomes’ U.S. court ruling against Trump tariffs, Carney says

Carney’s comments come after a three-judge panel blocked some of Trump’s signature policies, including the fentanyl and border security-related tariffs on Canada.

Canada is welcoming a court ruling that blocked U.S. President Donald  Trump’s tariffs, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Thursday.

“The government welcomes yesterday’s decision by the U.S. Court of International Trade, which is consistent with Canada’s longstanding position that the U.S. IEEPA tariffs were unlawful as well as unjustified,” Carney told the House of Commons.

Carney’s comments come after a three-judge panel blocked some of Trump’s signature policies, including the fentanyl and border security-related tariffs on Canada and Mexico. The court also blocked his global “reciprocal tariffs,” which Trump imposed in April, calling it “Liberation Day.”

“The challenged tariff orders will be vacated and their operation permanently enjoined,” the ruling says.

Carney said a number of tariffs on Canada remain, which the government will continue to fight.

He said Canada will continue to establish a new relationship with the U.S.

“It therefore remains the top priority of Canada’s new government to establish a new economic and security relationship with the United States and to strengthen our collaboration with reliable trading partners and allies around the world.”

Trump declared a national emergency on fentanyl earlier this year to justify the tariffs on Canada and Mexico, saying they were necessary to elicit action from those countries to curb the flow of the deadly opioid.