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Trump Fires Back at Trudeau, Vowing Added 'Reciprocal Tariff'
Newsmax ^ | March 4, 2025 | Eric Mack

Posted on 03/04/2025 10:56:50 AM PST by Navy Patriot

President Donald Trump wasted no time responding to outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's vow to apply retaliatory tariffs on the U.S.

"Please explain to Governor Trudeau, of Canada, that when he puts on a Retaliatory Tariff on the U.S., our Reciprocal Tariff will immediately increase by a like amount!" Trump replied quickly Tuesday on Truth Social.

Notably, Trump called Trudeau a governor instead of a prime minister of his country after months of talk about luring Canada in as a 51st state. U.S. states are led by governors.

Trump's remark come after Trudeau said Tuesday new tariffs on Canadian imports were "a very dumb thing to do," adding Ottawa was striking back immediately.

Trudeau, speaking hours after Trump launched a trade war against Mexico and Canada, said Canada was imposing immediate 25% tariffs on C$30 billion worth of U.S. imports and if need be would target another C$125 billion worth in 21 days' time.

"There is absolutely no justification or need whatsoever for these tariffs today," Trudeau told reporters, adding that Canada would challenge the U.S. measures at the World Trade Organization and through the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement.

Trump declared Canada had failed to do enough to stem the flow of the deadly fentanyl opioid and its precursor chemicals into the U.S.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


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Justine Castreau, International Joke and Cuban PM of Canuckistan, is removing all Canadian products from the US except the World Class Canuck Stupidity, which will always be available to American DemoRats.
1 posted on 03/04/2025 10:56:50 AM PST by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

Trudeau can go cry to his hero, Xi.


2 posted on 03/04/2025 10:59:02 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Navy Patriot

Supposedly Canada will cut off electricity to a lot of folk in the US.

What are we doing importing electricity in the first place?


3 posted on 03/04/2025 11:00:19 AM PST by Biblebelter
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To: dfwgator

It’s (trade) WAR!!!


4 posted on 03/04/2025 11:00:29 AM PST by JerseyDvl (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Biblebelter

The green BS. It is interesting to find out how dependent we are on other countries. It is not best for our security, either.


5 posted on 03/04/2025 11:02:29 AM PST by madison10
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To: Biblebelter

Fine. Shut the border roads that head to our medical facilities in Buffalo NY, Detroit MI, Seattle WA, etc.

A lot of Canadian customers .


6 posted on 03/04/2025 11:02:42 AM PST by Fledermaus (I'm getting tired of the contrarians on FR.)
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To: Navy Patriot

The bully (Canada) is mad we are keeping our lunch money for ourselves.


7 posted on 03/04/2025 11:03:36 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Navy Patriot

Vowing Added ‘Reciprocal Tariff’ and that’s how economies crash in a trade war.


8 posted on 03/04/2025 11:05:00 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Navy Patriot

“speaking hours after Trump launched a trade war”

So i guess trump does start wars!!!!

My gosh, the Msm is so pathetic


9 posted on 03/04/2025 11:06:14 AM PST by Jaysin (Trump can't be beat, unless the democrats cheat)
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To: Navy Patriot

Boys back home in the upper midwest are rolling up their sleeves.

Potlatch has construction lumber mills in MN and the UP of michigan.

160 million bd ft of lumber per year. And they are calling for logs all over the place.

Think about this. 500 to 700 loggers WILL ramp up production and supply those mills instantly.

Those are just a couple of the stud mills up there and i cant imagine whats going on in other regions of the USA.

As the saying goes..gettin evens a bitch.


10 posted on 03/04/2025 11:06:51 AM PST by crz
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To: PIF

Zeeper says what?


11 posted on 03/04/2025 11:11:21 AM PST by Right Brother (I don't really care Margaret.)
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To: Biblebelter

The Dems ended water, coal, gas, and nuclear power in the Eastern states.


12 posted on 03/04/2025 11:13:44 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. Psalm 33:12)
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To: Navy Patriot

Here is what Trudeau has imposed on America regarding tariffs.

Here are the key tariff rates Canada imposed on U.S.
imports as of October 31, 2024:
• Dairy: Milk (270%), Cheese (245%), Butter (298%)
• Poultry: Chicken (238%)
• Agricultural: Eggs (163%), Barley Seed (57.8%),
Bovine/Meat (26.5%)
• Manufactured: Cars (25%), HVAC (45%), Vacuums
(35%), Cable Boxes (35%), TVs (45%)
• Metals: Steel (25%), Aluminum (45%), Copper
(48%)
• Other: Sausages (69.9%)
These rates could have been subject to changes post-
reference date.

But we are the bad guys. Sick of listening to that Fat Fruck from Ontario, psycho Freeland, and Justine whine because they don’t get a free ride off our backs.

We are only okay as long as we let them abuse us.


13 posted on 03/04/2025 11:15:23 AM PST by dforest
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Baseball season for US teams in Toronto will not be fun. They may pack Rogers Center (Centre in Cannuck) just to boo the American players.


14 posted on 03/04/2025 11:19:09 AM PST by bleach (Donaldus Magnus 2024-2028 A.D.)
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To: madison10

“..The green BS. It is interesting to find out how dependent we are on other countries. It is not best for our security, either....”

Exactly.
This is what the globo/homo communist RATs have foisted onto the soverign American citizens with their insane BS..... They think they’re smarter than everyone else, and that they’re a “intelligent gift to humanity”... The reality is they’re just insane, arrogant, thieving, lying, stupid little POSs that should NEVER be allowed near levers of power of any kind, especially government. Actually, they belong in a rubber-lined room in an insane asylum.
Oh...and don’t forget to thank your local commie RAT democrat when ya see em....especially when you see that big “D” in the voting booth. “Thank” em reaall good in there. Useless basstids, they are.


15 posted on 03/04/2025 11:20:57 AM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: Navy Patriot

“There is absolutely no justification or need whatsoever for these tariffs today,” Trudeau told reporters


What’s the justification for the ones you already have in place on our goods?


16 posted on 03/04/2025 11:28:28 AM PST by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: Magic Fingers

What tariffs? No one can say what they are.


17 posted on 03/04/2025 11:40:01 AM PST by Dat
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To: Dat

What tariffs? No one can say what they are.


See #13 (I haven’t verified them but I assume the OP did).


18 posted on 03/04/2025 11:55:37 AM PST by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: Fledermaus; Biblebelter
Fine. Shut the border roads that head to our medical facilities in Buffalo NY, Detroit MI, Seattle WA, etc. A lot of Canadian customers .

Justine Castreau would certainly do that, like he did to the Canuck Truckers.

It would be only Canadians he would be killing, they come here for medical care because if they stayed in Canuckistan, they would die with no medical care at all.

19 posted on 03/04/2025 11:59:46 AM PST by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: Magic Fingers
Those are the retaliatory tariffs. If there are original tariffs that these are in response to, no one can say what they are. I went to the Whitehouse site, and Canadian tariffs weren't mentioned as the reason for the American tariffs. Fentanyl and illegal immigration were.
20 posted on 03/04/2025 12:00:14 PM PST by Dat
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