{"id":2413058,"date":"2025-03-13T15:37:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T19:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-promises-hes-not-going-to-bend-over-canada-and-metal-tariffs-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T15:37:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T19:37:02","slug":"trump-promises-hes-not-going-to-bend-over-canada-and-metal-tariffs-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-promises-hes-not-going-to-bend-over-canada-and-metal-tariffs-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump promises he&#8217;s &#8216;not going to bend&#8217; over Canada and metal tariffs &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-promises-hes-not-going-to-bend-over-canada-and-metal-tariffs-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2413058&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump promises not to &lsquo;bend&rsquo; on metal and car tariffs<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2038579\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> insisted he won&rsquo;t back off an April 2 deadline to impose sweeping global <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tariffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">tariffs<\/a> after a series of delays and exceptions for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/canada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Canada<\/a> and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been ripped off for years, and we&rsquo;re not going to be ripped off anymore,&rdquo; Trump told reporters in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/news\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">White House<\/a>&lsquo;s Oval Office on Thursday. &ldquo;No, I&rsquo;m not going to bend at all [on] aluminum, or steel, or cars. We&rsquo;re not going to bend.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3346918\/trump-faces-backlash-from-adf-for-calling-chuck-schumer-a-palestinian\/\">Trump faces backlash from ADF for calling Chuck Schumer a Palestinian<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3346501\/scott-bessent-government-shutdown-stock-market-shock\/\">Scott Bessent calls government shutdown a bigger story than stock market shock<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3346357\/trump-threatens-200-percent-alcohol-tariffs-eu\/\">Trump threatens 200% alcohol tariffs on EU countries<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Trump underscored his &ldquo;good&rdquo; personal relationships in Canada<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">, but sitting beside&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nato\/\" target=\"_blank\">NATO<\/a>&nbsp;Secretary-General Mark Rutte, he remained adamant that the United States can no longer &ldquo;subsidize&rdquo; its northern<\/span> neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We don&rsquo;t need their cars. We don&rsquo;t need their energy. We don&rsquo;t need their lumber. We don&rsquo;t need anything that they, that they give,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We do it because we want to be helpful, but it comes a point when you just can&rsquo;t do that. You have to run your own country.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Trump indicated Canada, a NATO member, &ldquo;only works as a state&rdquo; of the U.S., though he would permit it to keep its national anthem.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It would be one of the great states,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;If you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right through it, between Canada and the U.S., just a straight artificial line, somebody did a long time ago, many, many decades ago, and it makes no sense. &hellip; There&rsquo;ll be a little disruption, but it won&rsquo;t be very long. But they need us. We really don&rsquo;t need them. And we have to do this. I&rsquo;m sorry.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s comments came as Canadian officials, including Ontario Premier Doug Ford, are in Washington on Thursday after Trump&rsquo;s 25% across-the-board tariffs against Canada went into effect this week. Additional 25% duties on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/steel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">steel<\/a> and aluminum are also being imposed. In response, Canada announced last week that it was putting 25% tariffs on $30 billion worth of U.S. goods, with 25% levies placed on another $20 billion worth of U.S. goods overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Ford&rsquo;s threat to retaliate with a 25% surcharge on electricity imported into Michigan, Minnesota, and New York was met with Trump&rsquo;s own retaliatory measures: increasing the across-the-board tariffs to 50%.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also used the informal press conference to complain about the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/european-union\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> European Union<\/a>&lsquo;s tariffs against the U.S. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday morning, Trump declared he was introducing 200% tariffs on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/alcohol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">alcohol<\/a> from the EU after the European bloc said there would be a 50% duty on U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/whiskey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">whiskey<\/a> as part of a package of levies on $26 billion euros worth of U.S. goods, or about $28 billion &mdash; approximately the same amount of EU goods affected by the U.S.&rsquo;s actions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3346357\/trump-threatens-200-percent-alcohol-tariffs-eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>TRUMP THREATENS 200% ALCOHOL TARIFFS ON EU COUNTRIES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Take a look at the EU, we&rsquo;re not allowed to sell cars there,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s prohibited because of their policies and also their non-monetary tariffs. That&rsquo;s, they put obstacles in your way that you can do nothing about.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>The president added, &ldquo;They don&rsquo;t take our agriculture. We take their agriculture. It&rsquo;s like a one-way street with them. 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