Trump Threatens Canada With 100% Tariffs if It “Makes a Deal With China”

US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 100% tariff on Canadian goods if the country strikes a trade deal with China.

Canada has been seeking to diversify trade away from the US amid uncertainty caused by Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs. (Photo: Dominic LeBlanc Facebook)

“If Canada makes a deal with China, it will immediately be hit with a 100% tariff against all Canadian goods and products coming into the USA,” Trump said on Truth Social, Sakshi Venkatraman reported for BBC News.

It remains unclear what specific deal Trump was referring to. Last week, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a “strategic partnership” with China and agreed to reduce tariffs — a move Trump initially described as “a good thing.”

But tensions between the two countries have escalated in recent days after Carney said in a Davos speech that the US-led world order had been ruptured.

He also urged other “middle powers” to band together against economic coercion by “greater powers,” without naming Trump directly.

Canada’s US trade minister, Dominic LeBlanc, said Ottawa is not pursuing a free trade agreement with China.

“What was achieved was resolution on several important tariff issues,” LeBlanc said, adding that the government remains focused on strengthening the Canadian economy and expanding trade partnerships “throughout the world.”

Canada has been seeking to diversify trade away from the US — its largest trading partner — amid uncertainty caused by Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs.

Under the agreement reached last week between Carney and Chinese President Xi Jinping, China will lower tariffs on Canadian canola oil from 85% to 15% by March, while Canada will tax Chinese electric vehicles at the most-favored-nation rate of 6.1%, down from 100%.