Trump doubles tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum, torches Ontario electricity shutdown threat

President Donald Trump threatened to impose more customs tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum, electricity and vehicles on Tuesday.

In response to Ontario, a 25 % tariff was placed on the coming electricity to the United States, Trump said he ordered the Minister of Commerce Howard Lottenic to add another 25 % tariff to all steel and aluminum to the United States from Canada. The new tariff will enter into force on Wednesday morning.

Trump has issued the announcement of the social truth, Canada is “one of the highest introductory countries anywhere in the world.”

The move came after Dog Ford imposed in Ontario on electricity exports from the Canadian province to the United States in Michigan, New York and Minnesota on Monday. Speaking to reporters in front of the platform that reads “Canada is not for sale”, Ford said that the additional fees will cost families and companies in those states up to $ 400,000 per day. On average, the Prime Minister of Ontario said he would add about $ 100 per month to the “diligent American bills”.

“Let me be clear: I will not hesitate to increase this charge,” Ford said. “If necessary, if the United States escalates, I will not hesitate to stop electricity completely. Believe me when I say I do not want to do so. I feel dismay for the American people because it is the American people who started this trade war. He is a responsible person. This is President Trump.”

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President Donald Trump, accompanied by the Minister of Trade, Howard Lottenic, takes a question from a correspondent in the Roosevelt room in the White House on March 3, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images / Getty Images)

In a follow -up post on Tuesday, Trump said, “Why does our country allow another country to provide us with electricity, even for a small region?”

“Who made these decisions, and why?” Trump said. “Can you imagine that Canada is very low for the use of electricity, which affects the lives of innocent people, such as a bargaining and threats? They will pay a financial price for this very large that it is read in history books for many years to come!”

Trump also said on Tuesday that Canada should “drop the tariff of anti -American farmers immediately by 250 % to 390 % on various American dairy products, which have long been considered impressive.” The president said that he will soon announce a “national emergency situation about electricity within the threatened area”, a step “that allows the United States to do what to do quickly to reduce this abusive threat from Canada.”

“If another terrible tariff is not dropped by Canada, I will increase greatly, on April 2, the customs tariff for cars coming to the United States that will mainly close the manufacture of cars in Canada.” Trump added.

Trump expressed interest in the United States in controlling Canada through economic pressure, although he ruled out the use of military force. In contrast, he did not rule out the military force regarding his view of the Greenland channel and the Panama channel.

Dog Ford, Prime Minister of Ontario, offers notes at a press conference at Queens Park on March 10, 2025, in Toronto, Canada. (Catherine Ki Cheng / Getty Emoxz / Getty Pictures)

On Tuesday, the President accused Canada “only very little to national security, by relying on the United States for Military Protection.”

Trump says he stopped some customs tariffs “for help” in Mexico and Canada to “somewhat”

“We are supporting Canada with more than 200 billion dollars annually,” Trump wrote. “Why cann’t this continue,” Trump wrote. “The only thing that makes it logical to become Canada is a state of fifty prostitutes. This would make all customs tariffs, and everything else, completely disappears. Canadian taxes will decrease significantly, and it will be safer, military and other ever, there will be no problem in the northern border, stronger and stronger in the world, you will be better than ever – and it will be a large part. It will disappear for several years in the end, and it will be We have a safer and more beautiful nation anywhere in the world – and your wonderful hymn, “Canada”, will continue to play, but now represents a great and powerful country within the greatest nation that the world has ever seen!

At his press conference on Monday, the Prime Minister of Ontario thanked out the outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his service, while he was exploding “uncertainty” that Trump brought.

High -voltage electricity transmitters are displayed on March 8, 2025, in Windsor, Canada. (Bill Bogliano / Getty Emoxz / Getty Erch)

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“Until these definitions are launched outside the table, until the threat of definitions will disappear forever, Ontario will not back down,” Ford told reporters. “We need to end chaos once and forever.”