Trump raises Canadian steel, aluminum tariffs to 50% in retaliation for Ontario energy duties

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Source: CNBC

Published Tue, Mar 11 2025 10:09 AM EDT Updated 15 Min Ago


President Donald Trump said Tuesday he has ordered his administration to raise tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum imports by an additional 25%, bringing the total duties to 50%. The new policy will go into effect Wednesday morning, Trump said in a Truth Social post that also repeated his calls for Canada to be absorbed into the U.S. as the “Fifty First State.”

Trump said he was imposing the latest tariffs in response to a decision by Ontario’s government to slap a 25% tax on electricity exports to the U.S. That move by Ontario Premier Doug Ford was itself issued in retaliation to the sweeping 25% tariffs that Trump had placed on imports from Canada.

“Based on Ontario, Canada, placing a 25% Tariff on “Electricity” coming into the United States, I have instructed my Secretary of Commerce to add an ADDITIONAL 25% Tariff, to 50%, on all STEEL and ALUMINUM COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES FROM CANADA, ONE OF THE HIGHEST TARIFFING NATIONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday morning.

“This will go into effect TOMORROW MORNING, March 12th,” he wrote.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/11/trump-raises-canadian-steel-aluminum-tariffs-to-50percent-in-retaliation-for-ontario-energy-duties.html

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Published Tue, Mar 11 2025 10:09 AM EDT Updated Moments Ago


President Donald Trump said Tuesday he has ordered his administration to raise tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum imports by an additional 25%, bringing the total duties to 50%.

The new policy will go into effect Wednesday morning, Trump said.

Trump said he was imposing the latest tariffs in response to a decision by Ontario's government to slap a 25% tax on electricity exports to the U.S. That move by Ontario Premier Doug Ford was itself issued in retaliation to the sweeping 25% tariffs that Trump had placed on imports from Canada.

"Based on Ontario, Canada, placing a 25% Tariff on "Electricity" coming into the United States, I have instructed my Secretary of Commerce to add an ADDITIONAL 25% Tariff, to 50%, on all STEEL and ALUMINUM COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES FROM CANADA, ONE OF THE HIGHEST TARIFFING NATIONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday morning. "This will go into effect TOMORROW MORNING, March 12th," he wrote.

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President Donald Trump said Tuesday he has ordered his administration to raise tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum imports by an additional 25%, bringing the total duties to 50%.

Trump said he was imposing the latest tariffs in response to a decision by Ontario's government to slap a 25% tax on electricity exports to the U.S.

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President Donald Trump said Tuesday he has ordered his administration to raise tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum imports by an additional 25%, bringing the total duties to 50%.

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[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Elbows up. . . . . nt

[Fords Crackpipe]

26. ...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

32. No. Ford is NOT working to undermine Canada. He's mostly a negative CONservative, but not that. . . . .nt

[Fords Crackpipe]

33. Yes he is. And ALL tariffs should have to be authorized at the FEDERAL level. Because they affect OUR Country FEDERALLY.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

45. The export charge is not a tariff, and we are a confederation, but a national energy surcharge on oil would be good

I think Smith is Albertan first, Canada second.

[PortTack]

47. Weak arguement

[Fords Crackpipe]

48. Nope

[LiberalArkie]

2. Krasnov is trying his best to bring the U.S. to its knees. This should be almost as good as Smoot-Hawley

[Bev54]

29. It would seem he is trying to bring Canada to its knees.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. tRump scheduled to meet Business Roundtable at WH at 2 pm EDT, press at 3 pm for EOs

Could be interesting.

I will not be surprised if Ontario shuts off exported electric power.

[Squaredeal]

9. I'd keep it at 25%.

It’s a monthly bill reminder to that part of the country using imported electricity that Trump’s plan isn’t working for them.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Trump is anger and eager to raise government revenue

Canada will be stress tested but will emerge stronger, less reliant on the U.S. for the experience.

[brush]

5. Stupid trump is endangering northern states depending on Canadian energy exports with loss of energy and...

power outages. Keep it up trump.

[Paladin]

6. Well by God, THAT'LL teach Canada a thing or two!

Nothing like basing national economic policy on brain-dead grudge-mongering. Suits me fine---the more stupid shit like this trump pulls, the sooner we run him out of office.

[BootinUp]

7. Canada is going to kick our ass. Nt

[Tarzanrock]

8. Stupid well beyond any measure of stupidity!

One insane criminal motherfucker. I'll cut off another one of my fingers just to show you Canadians that I mean business. Canada will just sell that aluminum and steel to China, Japan, India, Brazil and to other countries who are in the global market for such products. Not just insane but stupid well beyond any measure of stupidity!

[C_U_L8R]

10. Wall Street Disapproves

Soon there will be bankers with torches and pitchforks at the gates, demanding their pound of flesh for Trump's indiscretions. His fuckups are compounding and there is no good path for him.

[Omnipresent]

22. Is there any way we can get them to hurry the fuck up, and do it already?!

[William Seger]

11. What a genius -- his response to some Americans having to pay 25% more for electricity...

... is to make ALL Americans pay more for anything made of steel or aluminum, because he simply doesn't understand that Americans will pay both of those taxes.

[Think. Again.]

13. He understands that very well.

[Katinfl]

40. He understands it all right.

He just does not care. Never did, never will. Period, paragraph……

[Justice matters.]

38. That's one of Putler's "orders" in encrypted "convos" these two criminals have.

[Think. Again.]

12. Be prepared to start feeding anyone who depends on...

....the U.S manufacturing or construction industries.

[Prairie Gates]

14. Beer prices are going to go way up

The US rolls aluminum, but Canada mines it.

A 50% tariff on aluminum will raise beer prices significantly, and soon. Indeed, many micros will be unable to do it and will go out of business. They are already struggling with a flagging beer market.

This is a disaster for US beer. There is no possibility of going back to bottles now: the whole industry has reshaped production and distribution around canning.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. Vacation in Canada. At least the beer here will be cheap! (and Cdn dollar and food and ......) . . . . nt

[madville]

25. Beer is expensive in Canada

About double what it is in the U.S. due to the taxes Canada has put on it for years.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

28. True there are significant taxes. But it won't get more expensive because of aluminum! . . . . nt

[the_liberal_grandpa]

15. Boom Boom Out Go The Lights

Canada has said that if the demon felon retaliated by increasing tarrifs they would shut the power off to parts of Minnesota, NY and Michigan

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/10/business/canada-electricity-us-tariffs-doug-ford/index.html

[Justice matters.]

39. Hope it's only in stupid gullible maga counties... nt

[Bayard]

16. Good thing its not winter.....

Wonder if the MAGAts in those states have figured out now that THEY are the ones paying tariffs?

Is it time to impeach him yet? We'd get two for the price of one. Wonder if Vance will keep the Muskrat.

[IronLionZion]

18. That'll solve everything

[everyonematters]

19. Tariffs on aluminum are especially stupid.

It is a mineral. Either you have it, or you don't.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

30. Not that simple. Canada does not have alumina, but it has lots of electricity

Aluminum production is highly dependent on cheap electricity.

[Native]

36. Canada is the US's largest source of imported aluminum.

3.2 million metric tons last year.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

46. Yes. We don't have the ore, we have the electricity to turn ore into the metal. . . . . nt

[wolfie001]

21. Literal insanity at this point

He's created a mortal enemy to our north. And a police state with state-supported propaganda down here. This is scary as shit.

[JohnSJ]

23. The sociopath has destroyed any confidence in the US economy, and we might be at the point where even if he reversed

course, the damage would have already been done.

[Mrsfiddlegirl]

24. And we're down already.

DOW down almost 600 by 10 am EDT. So much winning.

[republianmushroom]

27. And stupidity grows.

[SunSeeker]

31. This is what happens when you enter a tariff war without a plan. Pure idiocy.

Stocks continue to drop. Wait until tomorrow when the new inflation numbers come out.

Wednesday could prove a further turning point in markets' trajectories: the Bureau of Labor Statistics will report consumer inflation data for February. Forecasts were a slight softer reading compared with January — meaning price growth would have slowed — but any deviation could ripple through markets. 

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/stocks-open-lower-tuesday-march-2025-what-to-know-rcna195785

[dutch777]

34. This should shake the financial markets, especially if Canada fires back

[LastDemocratInSC]

35. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's thoughts on stupidity are relevant today.

"Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed – in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical – and when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason, greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid person than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8616320-stupidity-is-a-more-dangerous-enemy-of-the-good-than

[Native]

37. He also threatened to shut down the auto manufacturing business in Canada

Saying that he will accomplish this by
“substantially” increasing tariffs on cars coming into the United States from Canada starting on April 2.


https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/business/tariffs-canada-trump

[Wiz Imp]

41. It's stuff like this which makes it look like Trump is doing whatever Putin wants him to.

Even the most stupid of stupid people are smart enough to know that this will do nothing positive for the US and simply serve to make things worse.

Putin clearly would love to destroy the US. What Trump is doing is accomplishing that goal for Putin. It's up to you to decide whether Trump is doing it because Putin wants him to or just because he's so stupid he doesn't know any better. That question is open for debate..

[Stonealone]

44. My Vote

is for both reasons! But remember the source, this Orange Monkey somehow, someway managed to drive a casino into bankruptcy!! Casinos are a license to Make Money!! At best a Casino will only pay back around 20% of it's earnings as Winnings. It takes a special kind of STUPID to f*** that up!

[Mr. Evil]

42. Krasnov The Sick Fuck

thinks this makes him look like a tough guy to be reckoned with to the MAGA horde. Elonito Muskolini is actually running (destroying) things. He lets Krasnov The Sick Fuck do his little tariff tirade because to KTSF it's just a shiny new toy to prance around with. Until he ultimately breaks it. And he will. Everything KTSF touches... Dies!

[thought crime]

43. Tariff Tuesday

Frequent senseless actions against former allies create a greater sense of dystopian power.

Mussolini Mini-Me is demanding daily attention, causing fear and confusion, keeping everything off-balance. Straight outta Orwell.