Trump Says He’s Ending Trade Talks With Canada Over Tv Ads

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said precocious Thursday that he was ending “all waste and acquisition negotiations” pinch Canada because of a tv advertisement opposing U.S. tariffs that he said misstated nan facts and called “egregious behavior” aimed astatine influencing U.S. tribunal decisions.

The station connected Trump’s societal media tract came aft Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he intends to double his country’s exports to countries extracurricular nan U.S. because of nan threat posed by Trump’s tariffs. Trump’s telephone for an abrupt extremity to negotiations could further inflame waste and acquisition tensions that already person been building betwixt nan 2 neighboring countries for months.

Trump posted, “The Ronald Reagan Foundation has conscionable announced that Canada has fraudulently utilized an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively astir Tariffs.”

“The advertisement was for $75,000. They only did this to interfere pinch nan determination of nan U.S. Supreme Court, and different courts,” Trump wrote connected his societal media site. “TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A. Based connected their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED.”

Carney’s agency didn’t instantly respond to a petition for comment. The premier curate was group to time off Friday greeting for a acme successful Asia, while Trump is group to do nan aforesaid Friday evening.

Earlier Thursday night, nan Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute posted connected X that an advertisement created by nan authorities of Ontario “misrepresents nan ‘Presidential Radio Address to nan Nation connected Free and Fair Trade’ dated April 25, 1987.” It added that Ontario did not person instauration support “to usage and edit nan remarks.”

The instauration said it is “reviewing ineligible options successful this matter” and invited nan nationalist to watch nan unedited video of Reagan’s address.

Carney met pinch Trump earlier this period to effort to easiness waste and acquisition tensions, arsenic nan 2 countries and Mexico hole for a reappraisal of nan U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement — a waste and acquisition woody Trump negotiated successful his first term, but has since soured on.

More than three-quarters of Canadian exports spell to nan U.S., and astir $3.6 cardinal Canadian (US$2.7 billion) worthy of equipment and services transverse nan separator daily.

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Trump said earlier this week that he had seen nan advertisement connected tv and said that it showed that his tariffs were having an impact.

“I saw an advertisement past nighttime from Canada. If I was Canada, I’d return that aforesaid advertisement also,” he said then.

In his ain station connected X past week, Doug Ford, nan premier of Ontario, posted a nexus to nan advertisement and nan message: “It’s official: Ontario’s caller advertizing run successful nan U.S. has launched.”

He continued, “Using each instrumentality we have, we’ll ne'er extremity making nan lawsuit against American tariffs connected Canada. The measurement to prosperity is by moving together.”

A spokesperson for Ford didn’t instantly respond to a petition for remark Thursday night. But Ford antecedently sewage Trump’s attraction pinch an energy surcharge to U.S. states. Trump responded by doubling alloy and aluminum tariffs.

The president has moved to enforce steep U.S. tariffs connected galore equipment from Canada. In April, Canada’s authorities imposed retaliatory levies connected definite U.S. equipment — but it carved retired exemptions for immoderate automakers to bring circumstantial numbers of vehicles into nan country, known arsenic remission quotas.

Trump’s tariffs person particularly wounded Canada’s car sector, overmuch of which is based successful Ontario. This month, Stellantis said it would move a accumulation statement from Ontario to Illinois

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Associated Press Writer Rob Gillies successful Toronto, Ontario, contributed to this report.