Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Thursday that Canada would react immediately and definitely if on Tuesday the United States impose a 25 % duties on it announced by President Donald Trump. As he emphasized, the duties that Trump is currently talking about are associated with the fentanyl crisis, and through Canada reaches the US less than 1 percent of this drug.
US President Donald Trump He announced on Thursday that Suspended duties on imports from Mexico and Canada will come into force on Tuesday, March 4. He also announced the application of an additional 10 % tariff on products from China. – This is related to the further influx of fentanyl across the borders – added Trump, although statistics indicate a significant decrease in the smuggling of this drug.
Trump referred to Trump's statement during the Thursday press conference in Montreal, Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau. – We will do everything to avoid customs. But, as I said, if these unjustified duties are imposed on Canada on Tuesday, we will present an immediate and extremely strong answer, as Canadians expect – he said.
Trudeau emphasized that the federal government, province governments and all government partners have yet focused on the fact that “when Tuesday and the following weeks arrive, there were no duties imposed on Canada.” He pointed out that the duties that Trump is currently talking about are associated with the fentanyl crisis they are experiencing United Statesbut which is also present in Canada.
Canada Prime Minister Justin TrudeauFrank Gunn/PAP
“Canada is not a source of US problems”
– For months I emphasized that less than 1 percent of fentanyl, which reaches the USA, arrives from Canada – said Trudeau. He added that Canada wants to eliminate even this one percent, which is why the federal government has invested $ 1.3 billion in the protection of the US border, including new equipment, including Helicopters and drones.
The Canadian Prime Minister also noted that in Washington there are currently the Minister of Public Security David McGuinty, heads of the RCMP Federal Federal Police and border protection services, as well as a special official appointed to solve the problem of Fentanyl, Kevin Brosseau. In the conversations they focus on the possibilities of cooperation.
“Canada is not a source of US problems,” added Trudeau. As the Brosseau quoted in the media said, whose American side calls “Tsar” to Fentanyl, representatives of Canada want to make sure that the American side has full information.
At the beginning of February this year Trudeau He announced that Canada would introduce a 25 % retaliation duties on American goods Values of $ 155 billion in Canadian dollars (about $ 106 billion in American dollars) in response to the American duties previously announced. At that time, however, the White House pushed out the introduction of duties for a month.
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