Canada, “Trump’s objective” for annexation, demands the US before the WTO for its tariffs

The government of Canada He has already formally filed a formal demand against the United States before the World Trade Organization (WTO) for the imposition of 25%customs tariffs, confirmed sources from the organism based in Geneva and the Canadian delegation before him.

“The American decision does not leave us another choice to respond to protect Canada’s interests”The Canadian ambassador to the WTO said in his LinkedIn account, Nadia Theodorehours after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that this demand would be filed.

“It was not the outcome we expected, and we urged the US administration to reconsider their tariffs”Added the ambassador.

The demand for Canada It joins the one that China presented a month ago before the WTO against the United States, and both are in the consultation phase, which implies that if the litigating parties do not reach a bilaterally negotiated agreement in 60 days the plaintiff can request the formation of a panel of experts to settle the contentious.

The decision of the panel could take months or even years, and if one of the parties resorts, it would go to the last instance of the WTO dispute resolution system, the appeal body, paralyzed since the end of 2019 for the United States’s refusal to agree on the appointment of new judges.

If the lack of appointments for that organ is maintained, the conflict could go to a “limbo”In which there are already about thirty commercial contentious from different economies before the WTOincluding some that date back to the previous commercial war that the first Trump administration (2017-21) filed with China.

As retaliation, Canada He has also begun to apply 25 % tariffs to US products worth 30,000 million Canadian dollars (US $ 20,740 million or 20,000 million euros).

Trudeau said that the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has imposed tariffs on Canada To collapse your economy and “that is easier to annex”The country.

Annexar Canada

The objective of President Trump is to destroy Canada’s economy to be able to attach the country, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday during a heated press conference on the start of a commercial war between countries.

Trump He launched the tariffs on Tuesday, with the argument that Canada and Mexico have not done enough to combat drug trafficking. But in the case of Canada, that is just a pretext to impose the taxes that the US planned to impose anyway, said Trudeau.

“The excuse that is giving today for these tariffs on fentanyl is completely false, completely unjustified ”, Trudeau said. “What he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy because that will facilitate its annexation”

Trump has repeatedly said that Canada can avoid tariffs if it becomes the 51st state of the USA.Economic strength“To be imposed before the country. Last month, Trudeau told a group of business leaders who believes that the threat is real.

The US president imposed 10% tariffs on Canadian energy products and 25% to everything else than the country amount from Canada and Mexico. The Trudeau government counteratacious with taxes that point to 30,000 million Canadian dollars (US $ 20.8 billion) in American products, including cosmetics, appliances, tires, fruit, fruit and wine.

If Trump’s taxes are maintained, Canada’s tariffs will be extended in three weeks to a broader range of goods worth 155,000 million Canadian dollars in annual imports of US producers. The second phase will affect vehicles made in the US, as well as aluminum and aerospace products.

With information from EFE and Bloomberg