US President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened Canadian PM Mark Carney with 100 per cent tariffs to dissuade him from signing a trade deal with China.
Addressing him as 'governor Carney', Trump warned in a Truth Social post that "China will eat Canada alive, completely devour it".
He also claimed that the 100 per cent tariff threat was to prevent Canada from becoming a "Drop Off Point" for the entry of Chinese goods into the US.
This comes a week after reports of trade ties softening between Canada and China, which the former had once called its "biggest security threat", and uncertainty over ties with the US.
The deal would see Canada ease tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, which it had imposed simultanously with the US in 2024. In exchange, China will lower the retaliatory tariffs on key Canadian agricultural products.
(More details are awaited.)
