{"id":76363,"date":"2026-07-21T14:54:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T19:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/trump-defends-50-tariffs-on-canada-saying-they-need-us-to-survive\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T14:54:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T19:54:57","slug":"trump-defends-50-tariffs-on-canada-saying-they-need-us-to-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/trump-defends-50-tariffs-on-canada-saying-they-need-us-to-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump defends 50% tariffs on Canada, saying \u2018they need us to survive\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Carney says Canada is \u2018united\u2019 in face of threats as leaders agree to talk before tariffs take effect next month<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> has defended his new 50% <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/tariffs\">tariffs<\/a> on most Canadian goods, claiming the country cannot survive without the US.<\/p>\n<p>The White House announced the sweeping round of import duties \u2013 due to come into effect next month \u2013 on Monday, igniting fresh tensions between Washington and Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/21\/trump-defends-tariff-canada\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Carney says Canada is \u2018united\u2019 in face of threats as leaders agree to talk before tariffs take effect next month Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Donald Trump has defended his new 50% tariffs on most Canadian goods, claiming the country cannot survive without the US. The White House announced the &#8230; <a title=\"Trump defends 50% tariffs on Canada, saying \u2018they need us to survive\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/trump-defends-50-tariffs-on-canada-saying-they-need-us-to-survive\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump defends 50% tariffs on Canada, saying \u2018they need us to survive\u2019\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76363","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\/76363","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=76363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}