President Donald Trump announced Thursday he is raising tariffs on Canadian imports from 25% to 35%, citing Canada’s failure to cooperate in curbing the flow of fentanyl and other illicit drugs into the United States.
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump just signed an order RAISING his reciprocal tariff on Canada from 25% to 35%, effective at midnightThis comes after Canadian PM Carney tried playing games on tradeFAFO, Canada! pic.twitter.com/a0caM6EgxY
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) July 31, 2025
The increased tariff will take effect on Friday.
The move follows a series of executive actions signed by the President to address what the White House described as threats to U.S. national security and economic stability.
Trump signed two executive orders on Thursday—one specifically targeting Canada with the increased tariff, and another modifying reciprocal tariff rates on a broader scale to address longstanding trade imbalances with several nations.
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“These actions are designed to protect the United States from foreign threats to both our security and economy, and to ensure fair, balanced and reciprocal trade relationships,” the White House stated.
In addition to the 35% tariff on Canadian goods, President Trump announced on April 2 a 10% baseline tariff on all countries, with higher rates imposed on nations running large trade surpluses with the U.S. That measure took effect on April 9.
Subsequently, the U.S. secured a number of trade agreements. The European Union agreed to purchase $750 billion in American energy and pledged $600 billion in new investments by 2028.
The EU also accepted a 15% tariff rate.
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Japan followed with a commitment to invest $550 billion into American industry and agreed to broaden its market to U.S. exports, also under a 15% tariff structure.
Other revised tariff rates include Syria at 41%, Myanmar and Laos at 40%, Switzerland at 39%, Serbia and Iraq at 35%, and Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Libya, and South Africa at 30%, according to a list released by the White House.
The administration defended its trade strategy as a necessary countermeasure against economic threats and as part of the broader “America First” approach.
“President Trump is using tariffs as a necessary and powerful tool to put America first after many years of unsubstantiated trade deficits that threaten our economy and national security,” the White House said.
Fentanyl trafficking, particularly from Canada and Mexico, has been central to the administration’s justification for aggressive tariff action.
Earlier this month, Trump warned that Canada would face a 35% tariff beginning August 1, accusing the Canadian government of neglecting its responsibility to combat fentanyl trafficking and retaliating against the U.S. with its own tariffs.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 74 pounds of fentanyl have been seized at the northern border in fiscal year 2025.
The administration has also pointed to intelligence suggesting that Mexican drug cartels are operating fentanyl and nitazene synthesis labs inside Canada.
Additionally, the Trump administration has accused Canadian drug trafficking networks of maintaining large-scale “super labs” capable of producing 44 to 66 pounds of fentanyl weekly, primarily in western Canada.
In a letter to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney earlier this month, President Trump reaffirmed the importance of the U.S.-Canada trade relationship but criticized Canada’s decision to impose retaliatory tariffs.
Trump wrote that beginning August 1, a 35% tariff would apply to Canadian products entering the U.S., and that attempts to evade these tariffs would be met with increased penalties.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford responded Thursday to Trump’s announcement by calling for a firm response from the Canadian government.
“We need to stand our ground,” Ford posted on X.
“The increase in U.S. tariffs to 35 per cent is concerning, especially with tariffs still in place on steel, aluminum, autos, forestry and now copper.”
He emphasized that while over 90% of Canadian exports are covered under USMCA with zero tariffs, the federal government must take action to shield Canadian workers and businesses.
“The federal government needs to hit back with a 50 per cent tariff on U.S. steel and aluminum,” Ford added.
“Canada has what the United States needs: oil and gas, critical minerals, steel and aluminum, electricity, potash and uranium.”
Ford concluded his remarks by calling for unity and certainty.
“Canadian workers and businesses are desperate for certainty,” he said.
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“Let’s work together, united, to deliver it.”
Canada shouldn’t settle for anything less than the right deal. Now is not the time to roll over. We need to stand our ground.
The increase in U.S. tariffs to 35 per cent is concerning, especially with tariffs still in place on steel, aluminum, autos, forestry and now copper.…— Doug Ford (@fordnation) July 31, 2025
Earlier this year, President Trump imposed 25% tariffs on Canadian steel, autos, and other goods not covered under USMCA. In response, Canada imposed $43 billion in retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods.
Trump first announced the tariffs on his first day in office in January after formally declaring the fentanyl crisis a national emergency.
The latest escalation with Canada marks one of the administration’s strongest economic responses to the cross-border drug issue.
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But the Great Pumkin says nothing about all the illegal firearms that flow north of the border. Who can he bully to boost his ego about that?
There is a small grain of truth in the middle of that outburst of Trump Derangement Syndrome so common in North America’s neo-communist “socialists”.
Well, he’s doing a lot more for the USA and the world at large than the alternatives that he defeated and we watched for the last four years: As you prefer pejoratives, that would be The Oval Office House Plant, aka President Bribery Biden, and his DEI Hire, Border Czar Harris.
And just before Trump, that would be The Magical Marxist Mulatto Clown – who gave up his upbringing and life and education of White Privilege, to run for office as a po’ black chil’ who escaped from the ghetto. Did you notice any hint of Meglomaniac Ego when Bolshevik Barack was president for the previous eight years?
At least Trump isn’t a neo-communist police state fascist like Obama, Biden, and Harris – and Canadian Prime Ministers like Trudeau Senior and Junior (more commie egomanics, those two). Oh – and the execrable Dipper Singh, who give the Dipper votes to Trudeau in order to allow him to stay in power.
Trump is abusing allies – but far less than Obama and Biden before him. It wasn’t Trump who allowed Putin to invade the USA’s war ally in Afghan, Ukraine, TWICE.
And it wasn’t Trump that invited, and then refused to enforce existing immigration criminal law, to permit 20+ MILLION criminal Illegal Aliens into the USA.
Most political choices are about choosing the best from political candidates running for your vote, where every one of them is far from perfect. One of them will always be better for the country than the alternatives.
That’s true in Canada as well as in the USA. Has been since I first voted federally in the early 1970s.
Of course, there is no law against making your political choices based 100% on double standards, hypocrisy, emotion and political spin – rather than common sense, facts, and logic.
Trump always seems the feel a need to mix a little bit of stupidity in with his successes. But populist politics from politicians, regardless of party, are certainly emotional stupidity – but they work.
Fentanyl aside, Canada’s current prime minister that he is crying about is only prime minister because Trump’s actions not only rescued the Canadian liberal party from imminent extinction, but took out the Conservative leader with an economics degree, who was a shoo-in to be elected, and put a bankster Marxist in the Prime Minister’s Office in his place.
What would Trump’s response be if the Canadians pointed out that America’s Cocaine Cowboys have moved TONS of cocaine into Canada over the years – and fentanyl as well. Trump believes all the fentanyl deaths in Canada are from fentanyl made in Canada – rather than coming into Canada from the US as well? Same for cocaine, heroin, etc? None of it comes from the USA?
And what should the Liberal government – who hates guns even more than they hate Trump (if that is possible) – suggest as a tariff percentage on American goods until Trump puts an end to the illegal guns crossing the border into Canada?
After all, it is a serious ATF felony to export a firearm, whether it is legally or illegally possessed in the USA, from the USA to any foreign country.
Stick with that narrative, Rick. Pierre Polyester lost because he scared the shit out of people like me – real conservatives, not the turds that took over with the Mulroney invasion. Harper and your boy Pierre are US acolytes.
The choice, for the last 40 years has been whether you would rather be hanged or shot.
The Leninist Liberal shit narrative doesn’t stick with people like me – including false flag bullshit Bolshevik Birthing Boyz claiming to be “real conservatives”.
Oh yeah… a REAL conservative – who would rather see Prime Minister Racist Black Face running the country than Harper, whose background was an economics degree… not an English degree like Black Face, on his way to being the political son that Obama never had.
For Canadian commies, if a Canadian leader’s political beliefs parallel those of a Republican administration – that makes them “American acolytes”.
The only thing that will satisfy these Canadian commies is a leader that admired police state fascist communist leaders like Fidel Castro, Xi, and Mao. Which is why these Canadian commies attempt to claim they’re “real conservatives” – while supporting a Trudeau who both admires and emulates the police state fascism of those commie dictators.
Now… what next: going to attempt to sell us some of that beachfront property in Arizona that you’re developing?