U.S. president Donald Trump threatened on Saturday on his own community platform fact Social to impose duties of 100% on all imported goods from Canada if the country concluded a trade agreement with China.
"If politician Carney thinks he intends to make Canada a “shipping port” for China, from which they will send goods and products to the United States, he is mistaken," Trump wrote, calling the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney a “governor”.
He estimated that “China will eat Canada alive, consume it completely, including the demolition of her businesses, social tissue and general lifestyle.” He threatened to immediately introduce 100% duties on Canadian goods in the event of a trade agreement being signed.
Carney announced a week ago in Beijing that China and Canada had concluded an first agreement, abolishing trade barriers, including on tariff reductions on Canadian agricultural products and beginning Canada to Chinese electrical cars.
During the planet economical Forum in Davos, concluded on Friday, the Prime Minister of Canada gave a speech critical of US policy, widely commented on in the planet media. Shortly thereafter, Trump withdrew his invitation to Canada to the Peace Council that he had appointed.
Source: PAP
