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The Canadian government on Tuesday retaliated against President Donald Trump\u2019s latest wave of tariffs by raising rates on steel products and adding a swath of new duties on $20 billion worth of U.S. products exported to Canada.
The new duties of between 15% and 50% will take effect on Sept. 8, the Canadian government said. A list of the products<\/a> affected by the counter-tariffs contained more than 800 entries.
The duties \u201cwill focus on sectors such as steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, and electronics, that are most impacted by U.S. tariffs,\u201d Canada\u2019s Finance Ministry said.
\u201cWe stand united in fighting for Canada,\u201d Finance Minister Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne said in a statement. \u201cAs the Prime Minister has said, we will support our workers, our businesses, and our industry with whatever it takes for as long as it takes.\u201d
Champagne said Canada\u2019s response was tailored to \u201cmatch the American tariff on the same type of Canadian good.\u201d
\u201cOur existing counter-tariffs, including those on automobiles, will remain in place,\u201d he added.
The announcement came after the United States hit scores of Canadian products with new 50% tariffs that went into effect early Saturday. The levies followed weeks of trade negotiations that broke down, putting the longtime allies on unfamiliar footing.
Prime Minister Mark Carney had pledged Saturday <\/a>to strike back at the U.S. tariffs \u201cdollar for dollar,\u201d and Canada\u2019s government did just that.
\u201cGoods subject to 50% counter tariffs include steel and aluminum products that were previously only subject to a 25% counter tariff, furniture, and clothing and apparel,\u201d a government statement said.
Dairy, appliances, cheese and fish will face 25% duties, and a rate of 15% will apply to other products, including rubber molds and machinery parts.
Carney said he pulled the plug on a deal<\/a> late Friday only after Washington proposed \u201cunfair\u201d and \u201cuneconomic\u201d terms at the last minute.
\u201cWe could not accept what the U.S. had offered, nor could we give what they asked,\u201d Carney said.
American officials rebutted Carney\u2019s account of why the talks collapsed. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Monday that he had \u201csought to accommodate the Canadians by … cutting tariffs in half on steel, on aluminum, and extensively reducing them on autos and even on things like softwood lumber.\u201d
\u201cThey simply wanted more,\u201d Greer told CNBC.
Canada\u2019s plan for retaliation against Washington comes as Trump and Canadian officials have traded dozens of insults over the past few days.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford told a Canadian radio show<\/a> Monday that Trump could \u201ckiss my ass.\u201d
\u201cWe\u2019re going to go at him full steam,\u201d said Ford, who has backed Carney\u2019s response to Trump\u2019s tariffs.
Trump wasted little time responding to what he called \u201clots of \u2018bluster\u2019 from Doug Ford.\u201d
\u201cSomeone should get these clowns to \u2018fall in line\u2019 or, the consequences for Canada will be far WORSE!\u201d Trump wrote on social media.
Within hours, Trump threatened to impose a second wave of 50% tariffs <\/a>on Canadian autos and steel.
Ford later called the president the \u201cking of bankruptcies.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m not going to take the bait,\u201d Ford said. \u201cThis guy\u2019s a loser.\u201d
Trump ramped up his rhetoric against Ottawa once again Tuesday morning, threatening to rename Lake Ontario \u201cLake America.\u201d
Canadian officials described Trump\u2019s social media post as \u201cshenanigans.\u201d
\u201cWe\u2019ll always call it Lake Ontario,\u201d Industry Minister M\u00e9lanie Joly said at Tuesday\u2019s news conference.
Asked whether the federal government had pressed Ford to dial back his pugilistic criticism of Trump, Joly said only, \u201cWe all know that Premier Ford is a very colorful person.\u201d
She emphasized that preserving the auto industry \u2014 deeply rooted in Ontario \u2014 is \u201ca key consideration for this government.\u201d
Joly has been in regular contact with Honda, Ford Motor and Toyota\u2019s Canadian divisions, she said.
Trump and Ford have a history of getting under each other\u2019s skin.
In 2025, Ford\u2019s Ontario ran a TV ad during the MLB World Series broadcast. The ad, which Ford also posted on X<\/a>, opened with a clip of U.S. President Ronald Reagan, a Republican.
\u201cWhen someone says, \u2018Let\u2019s impose tariffs on foreign imports,\u2019 it looks like they\u2019re doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs, and sometimes for a short while it works, but only for a short time,\u201d Reagan says in the clip. \u201cBut over the long run, such trade barriers hurt every American worker and consumer.\u201d
The ad incensed Trump, who terminated trade talks with Canada shortly afterward<\/a>. He also threatened to impose an additional 10% tariff on Canadian goods but did not follow through at the time.
The ad was eventually pulled down after Ford said he had achieved his goal of starting a \u201cconversation.\u201d
Steve Kopack is a senior reporter at NBC News covering business and the economy.
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