Canada, Mexico and China did not stay and watch. A few hours after the signature of Donald Trump on the executive order of the duties, the Canadian premier Justin Trudeau has announced 25% retaliation measures on US goods for a value of over 100 billion dollars, the Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum He promised a proportionate reaction and the Chinese Ministry of Commerce has declared that he will present a cause against the United States at the World Trade Organization as well as the adoption of “corresponding countermeasures”. And while the war of the duties has now come to North American and Asian front, Europe in the middle is preparing to face it with a hard response.
Canada was the first of the three countries affected by the tycoon to react, with a press conference by Trudeau who announced a First round of duties at 25% for a value of 30 billion dollars Canadians, followed by further measures for a value of 125 billion over weeks. “We are certainly not looking for escalation, but we will defend Canada, the Canadians and Canadian jobs,” assured the prime minister out explaining that the taxes will apply to everyday goods such as beer, wine, fruit, vegetables, appliances , timber, plastic and more. Trudeau has therefore warned that the commercial conflict will have “real consequences” for the Canadians but also for the Americans, including loss of jobs, higher costs for food and petrol, potential closings of cars assembly plants and access prevented a Nichel, potassium, uranium, Canadian steel and aluminum. Ottawa, like China, has also announced that it will sue the United States at the World Trade Organization.
The American president in response insisted on the fact that Canada should become the 51st American state So as to obtain “much lower taxes, a far better military protection for the Canadian people and no duty”. The United States “pay hundreds of billions of dollars to support Canada,” wrote the Tycoon, probably referring to the commercial deficit with its neighbor and “without this massive support, Canada would not exist. The vice president JD Vance He put the load from one hundred accusing Ottawa of not spending enough for NATO and not to do enough to stop the trafficking of Fentanyl. «Mexico and China have been taking advantage of the United States for decades. But now we have a president like Donald Trump who is ready to take care of American citizens, “he attacked Tycoon number two.
Mexico also reacted to the American measures with Sheinbaum who denounced as “falling” the accusation of having ties with drug signs. «We categorically reject the slander of the White House which accuses the Mexican government of having alliances with criminal organizationsLi “, wrote the leader on X speaking of next” customs measures “against Washington and in turn accusing the producers of American weapons of dealing with” these criminal groups “in Mexico. Beijing’s response more moderate, however saved by Trump with duties of the ‘solò 10%, who left an open a window for dialogue and compromise. Meanwhile, the American president has, in the end, admitted what the experts had been saying for weeks and that is that the rates will have direct consequences on the Americans. “Will there be some suffering? Yes, perhaps (and maybe not!) », The American president wrote on Truth. “But we will make America again, and it will be worth it.”