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The Prime Minister of Ontario, Doug Ford, speaks during a campaign stop at Walker Construction in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, on January 31, 2025.
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Premier Ontario Doug Ford On Tuesday he said that he was temporarily suspending the planned 25% surcharge of his province in electricity exported to the US. Trade Secretary Howard Lutnick Agreed the renewed commercial conversations.
Ford said he and Lutnick “had a productive conversation about the economic relationship between the USA and Canada“Tuesday earlier.
“We have both agreed, that the coldest heads prevail,” Ford told reporters.
The comments occurred after the president of the United States, Donald Trump, intensified a commercial war already hot on Tuesday morning, saying that it would increase tariffs on the imports of steel and Canadian aluminum at 50%.
Trump announced those high tariffs on Ford’s heels saying that I would impose the surcharge to imports from electricity to Michigan, New York and Minnesota.
After the call between Ford and Lutnick, the White House commercial advisor, Peter Navarro, confirmed to CNBC that Trump would not advance with the additional tariff of 25% who had threatened earlier in the day.
Ford said that Lutnick agreed to meet him and the United States commercial representative, Jamieson Greer, in Washington, DC, Thursday to discuss a renewed United States-Mexico-Canada commercial agreement.
Trump has said that 25% tariffs will impose to the imported goods from Canada as of April 2.
