The Canadian province of Ontario suspends a 25 % increase in the price of electricity sold to the USA – Prime Minister Ontario Doug Ford said on Tuesday. Earlier, US President Donald Trump threatened that for using electricity as a tender card Kanada would pay a price that history textbooks will talk about.
“Can you imagine Canada descending to use electricity that affects the lives of innocent people as a tender card and threats so much? They will pay such a high financial price for it that we will read about it in history textbooks for many years!” – he wrote on Tuesday Donald Trump On your Social Social social networking site.
The president expressed the amazement that America allowed another country to provide electricity. “Who made these decisions and why?” – he wrote.
Trump's entry was another threat to Canada After an hour earlier he announced the doubles of duties to Canadian steel and aluminum, from planned 25 percent. up to 50 percent In response to the decision of Ontario's authorities on a raise electricity prices exported to USA. Trump also threatened that if Canada did not take off damages to American dairy products – although they only apply to products imported above the amount, which is usually not filled – he will answer by a significant increase in duties on cars, which in his opinion will permanently close the Canadian automotive industry.
He also appealed again to connect Canada as the 51st US state, calling the border between the “artificial line outlined many years ago”.
Ontario suspends a raise
“The latest duties of President Trump are an attack on Canadian employees, family and company. My government will ensure that our response has the greatest impact on the US and the minimum impact here in Canada, and at the same time we will support employees on which (duties) influence. My government will keep our customs in force as long as the Americans do not show us respect and do not take reliable, reliable commitments to free and fair trade.” Platform X on Tuesday Mark Carney, which in the coming days will take over the office of Prime Minister of Canada.
Prime Minister Ontario Doug Ford in many interviews for American television said on Tuesday that as long as the US will apply customs duties on imports from Canada, the province of Ontario will not withdraw from increases in the price of electricity sold to the USA.
However, in the latest statement posted on Platform X after talking to the Secretary of US trade Howard Lutnicko Ford wrote that “Ontario agreed to hang a 25 % duty from electricity exports to the states of Michigan, New York and Minnesota.”
Reaction to duties
On Monday, the Ontario authorities, the most populous province of Canada, decided to increase by 25 percent. Prices of exported electricity to the US in response to 25 % imposed by Trump. duties on goods from Canada. Dutch for nearly half of these goods, imported according to USMCA regulations, were suspended for a month.
American recipients were to pay about $ 10 Canadian more for a megawatt hour, which, as the province estimated, will bring from 300,000 a day. up to 400 thousand Canadian dollars. This money was to be allocated to help for ontar companies and employees. The increase would cover 1.5 million recipients in the American states of New York, Michigan and Minnesota.
When asked about the next steps, Ford said that he did not want to use electricity exports as a tender card, and apologized for his movement of the affected residents. At the same time, he said that he could even be forced to cut off 1.5 million Americans in New York, Michigan and Minnesota from the current supplied by Ontario.
In response to the suspension of the increase in electricity prices, Donald Trump stated that “probably” will change his earlier decision on the increase in customs.
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