{"id":35723,"date":"2025-03-11T16:17:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/trump-raises-canadian-steel-and-aluminum-tariffs-to-50-as-trade-war-escalates\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T16:17:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:17:01","slug":"trump-raises-canadian-steel-and-aluminum-tariffs-to-50-as-trade-war-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/trump-raises-canadian-steel-and-aluminum-tariffs-to-50-as-trade-war-escalates\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump raises Canadian steel and aluminum tariffs to 50% as trade war escalates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President cites Ontario\u2019s recent imposition of 25% surcharge on electricity exports to US as reason for doubling duties<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/mar\/11\/donald-trump-latest-us-politics-news-live\">US politics \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> has announced he is doubling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-tariffs\">tariffs<\/a> on Canadian steel and aluminum from 25% to 50% as a retaliation for the province of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/10\/ontario-canada-trump-tariffs\">Ontario\u2019s imposition of a 25% surcharge<\/a> on electricity exports to several US states, in a dramatic escalation of the trade war between the two ostensibly allied countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on Ontario, Canada, placing a 25% Tariff on \u2018Electricity\u2019 coming into the United States, I have instructed my Secretary of Commerce to ad [sic] an ADDITIONAL 25% Tariff, to 50%, on all STEEL and ALUMINUM COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES FROM CANADA, ONE OF THE HIGHEST TARIFFING NATIONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/11\/trump-double-canada-tariffs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President cites Ontario\u2019s recent imposition of 25% surcharge on electricity exports to US as reason for doubling duties US politics \u2013 live updates Donald Trump has announced he is doubling tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum from 25% to 50% as a retaliation for the province of Ontario\u2019s imposition of a 25% surcharge on electricity &#8230; <a title=\"Trump raises Canadian steel and aluminum tariffs to 50% as trade war escalates\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/trump-raises-canadian-steel-and-aluminum-tariffs-to-50-as-trade-war-escalates\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump raises Canadian steel and aluminum tariffs to 50% as trade war escalates\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}