Corporate General Director Alcoa Bill Oplinger expresses concerns about President Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs 25% of the Trump envisaged to come into force and his focus on seeking an exception.
President Donald Trump threatened to impose further tariffs in Canadian steel, aluminum, electricity and vehicles on Tuesday.
In response to Ontario by setting a 25% fee of electricity coming to the United States, Trump said he instructed the Howard Lutnick Secretary to add another 25% fee to all steel and aluminum coming to the United States from Canada. The new 50% tariff will take effect Wednesday morning.
Trump made the announcement of social truth, considering Canada “one of the highest tariff nations around the world.”
The measure came after the Prime Minister of Ontario Doug Ford imposed 25% fees for electricity exports from the Canadian province to the US states of Michigan, New York and Minnesota on Monday. Speaking in front of reporters in front of a podium that read “Canada is not for sale”, Ford said it would cost families and businesses in those countries up to $ 400,000 daily. On average, Ontario’s prime minister said he would add about $ 100 a month to “zealous American bills”.
“Let me be clear: I will not hesitate to increase this fee,” Ford said. “If necessary, if the United States escalates, I will not hesitate to close electricity completely. Believe me when I say I do not want to do so. I feel terrible for the American people because it is not the American people who started this trade war. It is a person responsible. This is President Trump.”
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President Donald Trump, accompanied by Trade Secretary Howard Lutnick, asks a question from a reporter in the White House Roosevelt room on March 3, in Washington, DC (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images / Getty Images)
In a subsequent post on Tuesday, Trump said: “Why would our country allow another country to supply us with electricity, even for a small area?”
“Who made these decisions and why?” Trump said. “And can you imagine Canada by stopping so much as to use electricity, which affects the lives of innocent people, as a chip and threat to negotiation? They will pay a financial price for it as big as it will be read in history books for many years!”
Trump also said Tuesday that Canada “should immediately lift their tariff of anti-American farmers from 250% to 390% in various American dairy products, which has long been wild.” The president said he will soon declare “a national emergency on electricity within the threatened area”, an action that “will allow the US to quickly do what should be done to alleviate this abusive threat from Canada”.
“If other wild, long tariffs are also not falling from Canada, I will grow significantly on April 2, fees for cars coming to the US, which will, in essence, permanently close the car production business in Canada. Those cars can easily be done in the US!” Added Trump.
Trump has expressed interest in the United States to gain Canada’s control through economic pressure, though he potentially excluded by using military force. In contrast, he has not excluded military force regarding his views on the purchase of Greenland and the Panama Canal.
Ontario Doug Ford prime minister gives remarks at a press conference at Queen’s Park on March 10, 2025, in Toronto, Canada. (Katherine This Cheng / Getty Images / Getty Images)
The president on Tuesday further accused Canada “pays very little for national security, relying on the United States for military protection.”
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“We are subsidizing Canada in a majority of more than $ 200 billion a year. Why ??? This cannot continue,” Trump wrote. “The only thing that makes sense is that Canada becomes our fifty beloved state. It will make all the fees, and everything else will disappear completely. Canadian taxes will be greatly lowered, they will be safer, military and otherwise, never before, would be a big problem of the border and the greatest, and the greatest part, great, and be a large part, which will be a large part of this, and be a large part of the big row, and be a large part, which will be a large part of the big row, and be a large part of the big row. continue to play, but now represents a large and powerful state within the largest nation the world has ever seen! “
At his press conference on Monday, Ontario’s Prime Minister thanked the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his service, while decreed the “insecurity” brought by Trump.
Transmission towers that hold high voltage electricity are shown on March 8, 2025, in Windsor, Canada. (Bill Pugliano / Getty Images / Getty Images)
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“Until these tariffs are out of the table, until the threat of tariffs has disappeared for good, Ontario will not stay in failure,” Ford told the journalists. “We have to end the chaos once and for all.”