This puppet of China that Canada made their Prime Minister is a real softy….. After all his tough talk, Canada as removed all tariffs on US steel and aluminum. Elbows up!
Carney’s Liberal Party won the general election in the country in April on a promise to aggressively confront President Donald Trump’s tariff policy, which the American leader intended to use to renegotiate the trade relationships America has built with its economic partners. Canada was largely exempt from Trump’s tariffs due to its participation in the United States-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade agreement, but that did not stop Carney from declaring that Canada would end its longstanding friendly ties to America and decisively force Trump to drop tariffs.
Far from any sort of confrontation, Carney has enjoyed a jovial and friendly relationship with Trump. He has also not taken any substantive measures to sever U.S.-Canadian ties and has slowly lifted the few retaliatory trade moves he and predecessor Justin Trudeau had taken to counter Trump.
According to Reuters, the Carney administration lifted steel and aluminum tariffs on American and Canadian goods that had initially been intended as a response to American tariffs on the same Canadian products. The official order lifting the tariffs was reportedly dated October 15 and issued via the Canadian Ministry of Finance. The document that Reuters viewed, which it reported confirmed the move, was dated Friday, October 17.
In addition to Chinese metal products, “The ministry also exempted from tariffs some U.S. steel and aluminum products primarily linked to public health, national security, manufacturing, agriculture, and food packaging,” the document said.