Trump says 25% tariff on most Canadian goods will take effect March 4
U.S. President Donald Trump says he will end a month-long pause and slap a 25 per cent tariff on most Canadian goods as of March 4, claiming he needs to take action because “drugs are still pouring into our country” despite evidence that a crackdown at the border is working.
Trump said in a social media post Thursday that fentanyl imports are killing people and the U.S. “cannot allow this scourge to continue to harm the USA” and he will levy a 25 per cent tariff on Canada “until it stops, or is seriously limited.”
He also says his threatened reciprocal tariffs on specific goods set to come into effect in April “will remain in full force and effect.”
The commitment comes after a week of chaotic messaging from the president.
Trump told reporters Monday that the tariff pause he negotiated with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be lifted next week and the 25 per cent levy on Canadian goods will go into effect because the country is supposedly ripping off the U.S.
Then, on Tuesday, White House staff told reporters the president was referring to other promised trade action in those remarks and the 25 per cent universal tariff (or 10 per cent on energy products) is still subject to some negotiations.
Trump was definitive on Thursday — and he’s back to linking this trade action to drugs.
“Proposed TARIFFS scheduled to go into effect on MARCH FOURTH will, indeed, go into effect, as scheduled,” he said.
Significant decrease in seizures
Despite Trump’s claims, data from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released earlier this month shows there has been a significant decrease in fentanyl seizures coming from Canada.
The CBP registered a stunning 97 per cent drop in January compared to December 2024 — evidence, the Canadian government says, that its $1.3-billion border security package is already bearing fruit.
The CBSA reported today that it and its law enforcement partners have made some significant seizures at the border, pulling in fentanyl and fentanyl pills, including busting two U.S. citizens at the Windsor-Detroit tunnel earlier this month who were carrying enough of the deadly drug to kill an estimated 10,000 people.
And it’s not just at the border — police are reporting progress in the nationwide fentanyl crackdown.
Just yesterday, the RCMP said that over a recent six-week period, Canadian law enforcement has reported “489 occurrences related to fentanyl and synthetic opioids,” resulting in 524 arrests and the seizure of “large quantities of drugs and other commodities.”
Police hauled in 46 kilograms of fentanyl and 15,765 pills of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, like oxycodone.
In an interview with CBC News last week, Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s ambassador to the U.S., said illegal migration from Canada into the U.S. has declined by some 90 per cent in recent months — and the president’s advisers have been “pleased” with the progress.
It’s not clear that Trump himself is all that pleased, however. He blamed Canada, Mexico and China in his social media post for the “distribution of these dangerous and highly addictive POISONS.”
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