When will Trump's tariff increase hit Canada? Not even he knows
CBC
As Canadian officials scramble to find clarity on Donald Trump's social media post announcing a 10 per cent increase to what he called "the Tariff on Canada," the U.S. president himself appears to be thin on the details.
Nearly two days after posting to social media the words "I am increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they are paying now," Trump has yet to say which of the various tariffs on Canadian exports to the U.S. will be hit, nor has his administration given Canada official notice of any tariff hike.
Aboard Air Force One on Monday, a reporter asked Trump when he expects the tariff increase to take effect.
"I don't know when it's going to kick in, and we'll see, but I don't really want to discuss it," Trump said.
He did, however, discuss at some length the Ontario government advertisement that ostensibly triggered him to call off trade talks with Canada and then announce the tariff hike.
Much of what Trump had to say Monday about the ad — which uses excerpts from then-president Ronald Reagan's 1987 radio address on free trade — was false.
Trump repeated his claim that the ad was "fake" and that it fraudulently manipulated Reagan's views on tariffs, despite plenty of evidence the late Republican president was strongly against tariffs on economic allies such as Canada.
Reagan "liked tariffs, and [the Ontario government] totally changed that to say that he didn't, because they're catering to the Supreme Court," Trump said.
The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to hear oral arguments on Nov. 5 in a case that Trump has called the most important in the court's history. It's his administration's appeal of a ruling that Trump overstepped his constitutional authority in imposing broad-based tariffs on Canada, Mexico and dozens of other countries over fentanyl trafficking, illegal immigration and trade deficits.
Trump brushed off a question about why he's punishing Canada for an ad by a provincial government.
"Whether it's provincial or Canada itself, they all knew exactly what the ad was. The prime minister knew. Everybody knew," Trump said.
"Canada has been ripping us off for a long time," he added. "As much as I love Canada itself and the people of Canada, they've just had a lot of bad representatives."
Asked if he'll meet with Prime Minister Mark Carney, as both are headed to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in South Korea this week, Trump was dismissive.
"I don't want to meet with him. I'm not going to be meeting with him for a while now. I'm very happy with the deal we have right now with Canada, and we're going to let it run," Trump said.
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