Trump Threatens Canada With 10% Extra Import Tax Over Anti-tariffs Ad - Beritaja

President Trump speaks pinch reporters aboard Air Force One astatine Al Udeid Air Base successful Doha, Qatar, connected Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. Mark Schiefelbein/AP

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ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Donald Trump said connected Saturday that he plans to hike tariffs connected imports of Canadian equipment by an other 10% because of an anti-tariff tv aired by the state of Ontario.

The utilized the words of erstwhile President Ronald Reagan to knock U.S. tariffs, angering Trump who said he would extremity waste and acquisition talks pinch Canada. Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he would propulsion the aft the weekend, and it ran Friday nighttime during the first crippled of the World Series.

"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 said successful a station connected his Truth Social level arsenic he flew aboard Air Force One to Malaysia.

"Because of their superior misrepresentation of the facts, and dispute act, I americium expanding the Tariff connected Canada by 10% complete and supra what they are paying now."

It was not instantly clear erstwhile the 10% hike would travel into effect, nor whether it would use to each Canadian goods.

Canada's system has been deed difficult by Trump's tariffs, and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has been trying to activity pinch Trump to little them. More than three-quarters of Canadian exports spell to the U.S., and about $3.6 cardinal Canadian ($2.7 cardinal U.S.) worthy of equipment and services transverse the separator daily.

Many Canadian products person been deed pinch a 35% tariff, while alloy and aluminum look rates of 50%. Energy products person a little complaint of 10%, while different equipment covered by the U.S.-Canada-Mexico Agreement are exempt. That waste and acquisition statement is slated for review. Trump negotiated the woody successful his first term, but has since soured connected it.

Trump and Carney will some be the Association of Southeast Asian Nations acme successful Malaysia. But Trump told reporters walking pinch him that he had nary volition of gathering Carney there.

Trump said the misrepresented the position of Reagan, a two-term president and a beloved fig successful the Republican Party. But Reagan was wary of tariffs and utilized overmuch of the 1987 reside featured successful Ontario's pronunciation retired the lawsuit against tariffs.

Trump has complained the was aimed astatine influencing the U.S. Supreme Court up of arguments scheduled for adjacent period that could determine whether Trump has the powerfulness to enforce his sweeping tariffs, a cardinal portion of his economical strategy.