Canada was doing it up until August 2025
Timeline of 2025 trade actionsMarch 2025: The U.S. began imposing tariffs on Canadian imports.
**March 2025: ** Canada retaliated by imposing 25% tariffs on billions of dollars worth of U.S. products, including food and household goods. This action deliberately targeted goods that should have been tariff-free under the CUSMA framework.
April 2025: Canada also applied tariffs on non-CUSMA compliant vehicles and certain content within CUSMA-compliant vehicles imported from the U.S.
August 2025: Canada announced it would lift its retaliatory tariffs on most USMCA-compliant goods, beginning in September.
September 2025: As of September 1, 2025, Canada’s tariffs were removed on most U.S. imports. However, counter-tariffs on steel, aluminum, and automobiles remain in place, mirroring the tariffs still maintained by the U.S. on those sectors.
The US Has
Timeline of 2025 US tariffs on Canada
March 4: The U.S. implemented new tariffs of 25% on most goods from Canada, with a 10% tariff on Canadian energy and potash.
March 12: The U.S. separately imposed 25% tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum, based on Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act. Canadian imports could potentially face cumulative tariffs under the different justifications.
**April 3: **The U.S. placed a 25% tariff on Canadian automobiles.
June 4: The tariffs on steel and aluminum from Canada were increased to 50%.
October 25: A 10% tariff increase was announced for Canadian goods in response to Ontario ads critical of Trump’s tariffs.
This came up a few months ago when people were saying “But wait, congress has power to set tariff policy”. That was true until the Smoot-Hawley act that is often blamed (probably correctly) for triggering or at least greatly exacerbating the Great Depression. After that, congress ceded tariff control to the executive. AFAIK, there’s nothing stopping congress from taking it back, but I can’t see the current congress doing that.
So, he’s back to breaking the law again? He can’t impose tariffs on Canadian goods that are protected under the USMCA.
Canada was doing it up until August 2025 Timeline of 2025 trade actions March 2025: The U.S. began imposing tariffs on Canadian imports.
**March 2025: ** Canada retaliated by imposing 25% tariffs on billions of dollars worth of U.S. products, including food and household goods. This action deliberately targeted goods that should have been tariff-free under the CUSMA framework.
April 2025: Canada also applied tariffs on non-CUSMA compliant vehicles and certain content within CUSMA-compliant vehicles imported from the U.S.
August 2025: Canada announced it would lift its retaliatory tariffs on most USMCA-compliant goods, beginning in September.
September 2025: As of September 1, 2025, Canada’s tariffs were removed on most U.S. imports. However, counter-tariffs on steel, aluminum, and automobiles remain in place, mirroring the tariffs still maintained by the U.S. on those sectors.
The US Has
Timeline of 2025 US tariffs on Canada March 4: The U.S. implemented new tariffs of 25% on most goods from Canada, with a 10% tariff on Canadian energy and potash.
March 12: The U.S. separately imposed 25% tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum, based on Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act. Canadian imports could potentially face cumulative tariffs under the different justifications.
**April 3: **The U.S. placed a 25% tariff on Canadian automobiles.
June 4: The tariffs on steel and aluminum from Canada were increased to 50%.
October 25: A 10% tariff increase was announced for Canadian goods in response to Ontario ads critical of Trump’s tariffs.
i dont think the president is supposed to impose tariffs on his own in general tbh
This came up a few months ago when people were saying “But wait, congress has power to set tariff policy”. That was true until the Smoot-Hawley act that is often blamed (probably correctly) for triggering or at least greatly exacerbating the Great Depression. After that, congress ceded tariff control to the executive. AFAIK, there’s nothing stopping congress from taking it back, but I can’t see the current congress doing that.
This. Everything he’s been doing with tariffs has been illegal AF.