By Jarrett Renshaw
(Reuters) – Canada is expected to impose customs duties on Wednesday for $ 29.8 billion Canadian dollars (around 19 billion euros) in response to those imposed by Donald Trump on steel and aluminum, a Canadian official on condition of anonymity said.
The United States established customs duties of 25% on Wednesday on all its imports of steel and aluminum, a new climbing in the pricing war that Donald Trump leads to reduce the trade deficit and protect American steel producers.
Canada is the largest foreign supplier of steel and aluminum in the United States.
Earlier, Canadian Minister of Energy, Johathan Wilkinson, said that his country could impose non-tariff measures such as the restriction of its oil exports to the United States or the perception of export rights on its minerals if the American customs duties were maintained.
This escalation between the two neighbors occurs while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is preparing the transfer of power to his successor Mark Carney, who won the race for the presidency of the party in power on Sunday.
Mark Carney said on Monday that he couldn’t chat with Donald Trump as long as he had not taken an oath. The American president once again said on social networks that he wanted Canada “to become our fiftieth well-loved state”.
(Report Jarret Renshaw, Pauline Foret, edited by Kate Entringer)
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