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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced he was ending “all trade negotiations” with Canada over a television ad opposing U.S. tariffs that he said misrepresented the facts and called “egregious conduct” intended to influence decisions in U.S. courts.
The post on Trump’s social media site came Thursday evening after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he aims to double his country’s exports to countries outside the United States due to the threat posed by Trump’s tariffs. Trump’s call for an abrupt end to negotiations could further inflame trade tensions that have already been escalating between the two neighboring countries for months.
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“The Ronald Reagan Foundation just announced that Canada fraudulently used a fake ad showing Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs,” Trump said.
“The ad was for $75,000. They did it just to interfere with the decision of the US Supreme Court and other courts,” Trump wrote on his social media site. “Tariffs are very important to the national security and economy of the United States of America, and based on their egregious conduct, all trade negotiations with Canada are hereby terminated.”
Carney’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Prime Minister is scheduled to leave on Friday morning to attend a summit in Asia, while Trump is scheduled to leave on Friday evening.
Trump, a Republican, was still at it on Friday morning, angrily posting on his social media site that “Canada cheated and got caught!!!” On the tariff announcement.
“The United States is rich, powerful, and nationally secure again, all because of tariffs!” he wrote in a separate post on his Truth Social account. “The most important case of all is in the United States Supreme Court. God Bless America!!!”
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Earlier Thursday night, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute posted to
The foundation said it was “reviewing legal options in this matter” and invited the public to watch the unedited video of Reagan’s speech.
As for the Supreme Court, Trump points to a case scheduled for early November, in which justices will consider the legality of his sweeping tariffs. Two lower courts decided that Trump could not unilaterally impose broad tariffs under the Emergency Powers Act. His administration argues otherwise, saying he can regulate imports and this includes tariff policy.
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Carney met with Trump earlier this month to try to ease trade tensions, as the two countries and Mexico prepare to review the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, a trade deal that Trump negotiated in his first term but has since faltered.
More than three-quarters of Canadian exports go to the United States, and nearly C$3.6 billion (US$2.7 billion) in goods and services cross the border daily.
Trump said earlier this week that he had seen the ad on television, which he said showed his tariffs were having an impact.
He said at the time: “I saw an advertisement last night from Canada. If I were Canada, I would have taken the same advertisement as well.”
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In his own post on X last week, Ontario Premier Doug Ford posted a link to the ad and message: “It’s official: Ontario’s new ad campaign has launched in the US.”
He continued: “Using all the tools at our disposal, we will never stop making the case against US tariffs on Canada. The path to prosperity is working together.”
A Ford spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday night. But Ford previously caught Trump’s attention by imposing additional fees on electricity in the US states. Trump responded by doubling tariffs on steel and aluminum.
The president moved to impose hefty US tariffs on many goods coming from Canada. In April, the Canadian government imposed retaliatory tariffs on some US goods, but granted exceptions to some automakers to bring specific numbers of vehicles into the country, known as exemption quotas.
Trump’s tariffs have particularly hurt Canada’s auto sector, much of which is based in Ontario. Stellantis said this month it would move a production line from Ontario to Illinois
Associated Press writers Seung-Min Kim in Washington and Rob Gillis in Toronto, Ontario, contributed to this report.
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