Trump’s tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico have been quick to retaliate from all three countries

president Trump imposes 25% tariff on blankets On all goods imported from Canada and Mexico, a swift retaliation oath of retaliation was carried out on Tuesday from direct neighbors of the United States. Since Trump took office, the U.S. export tax rate is the second 10%, raising the total to 20%, China has immediately announced its own reciprocity measures, intentionally targeting the U.S. agricultural sector.
Here are the measures taken or planned by Canada, China and Mexico, as well as comments from officials in these countries, where Mr. Trump intensified his trade war against one of the biggest rivals of the United States and its two closest neighbors.
Canada announces mutual tariffs
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau immediately announced retaliation against new U.S. tariffs in a statement Monday night. He said Canada will immediately impose a $30 billion anti-election campaign on goods imported from the United States, upgrading to $155 billion worth of U.S. products over the next 21 days. Trudeau has previously said Canada will take its measures to include American beer, wine, bourbon and household appliances, as well as Florida orange juice.
“Canada will not let this unreasonable decision not be resolved,” Trudeau said, adding that he is already discussing various non-tariff measures with Canadian provincial leaders if the Trump administration does not raise tariffs.
“Due to the U.S. imposition of groceries, gas and cars and potentially losing thousands of jobs,” Trudeau said. “Tariffs will undermine a very successful transaction relationship. They will violate the trade agreements that President Trump negotiated during the last period.”
Some Canadian governors have pushed for a tougher reaction.
“If they want to try to annihilate Ontario, I will do everything I can to include a smile on my face. [British Columbia]We all have to act in unison,” said Doug Ford, Prime Minister of Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, at the Industrial Conference on Monday. “They rely on our energy. They need to feel pain. They want to come to us hard. We will be hard to come back twice as hard. ”
Ford said Canada might consider moving forward with retaliatory measures including stopping the transport of key minerals such as uranium, potassium fertilizer and nickel, in addition to reducing energy supply, he said that in New York, Michigan and Minnesota, this could leave 1.5 million people without power, which could cause significant disruption to the U.S. economy.
He said he also asked the province’s officials to end a multibillion-dollar contract with the United States and block U.S. alcohol from importing into Ontario.
“It’s definitely an absolute disaster for both countries,” he admitted in another interview with NBC News. “I don’t want to respond, but I’ll respond like they’ve never seen it.”
Mr. Trump’s tariffs to Canada constitute a response to what he said is the country’s failure to stop undocumented immigration and fentanyl flows across the northern U.S. border – though very Almost no such drug entersaccording to statistics compiled by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency.
In a message posted to his own truth social platform earlier Tuesday, Mr. Trump also posed questions about Canadian bank regulations, saying the country “does not allow American banks to operate in Canada but their banks flooded the U.S. market” but did not provide other context.
Trudeau defended Canada’s actions on border control and illegal fentanyl movement on Monday, saying between December 2024 and January 2025, U.S. authorities seized the drug from Canada, down 97% to just 0.03 pounds. He said this decline came after Canada implemented a $1.3 billion plan to deploy more helicopters and more boots and appoint a “fentanyl tsar.”
China announces tariffs, warning of “maximum pressure” strategy
Mr. Trump has long accused China of giving its manufacturers and other businesses an unfair advantage in trade with the United States and vowed to balance the extremely biased stream of goods. But his latest round of tariffs on the country constitutes a punishment he claimed for refusing to suppress the flow of fentanyl and use it to make it a chemical substance in the United States.
Faced with the escalating trade war with the Trump administration, the Chinese government refused to back down, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian told reporters in Beijing on Tuesday that “the fallacy of Chinese people cannot be threatened and blocked by fallacies, and bullying strategies are not the right way to deal with China.”
“The biggest pressure on China is to target the wrong opponent and is a misunderstanding of the situation. If the United States does want to solve the fentanyl issue, it should establish with China the principles of equality, respect and mutual benefit to address each other’s concerns,” he said.
“If the United States has other intentions and is committed to launching a tariff war, a trade war or any other war, then China will respond in kind,” Lin said.
China retaliated immediately, from wheat, corn and cotton to soybeans, beef, chicken and dairy products, announcing 10-15% tariffs on U.S. agricultural products and food. Beijing also put 25 U.S. companies under export and investment restrictions on what it calls national security issues.
Victor Gao, a senior Chinese analyst, told CBS News that while China’s anti-election will affect American farmers (Beijing believes it is one of Mr. Trump’s support bases) – he believes Beijing is measuring in its response and does not want to anger the situation.
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Gao, who worked with the country’s leadership and is now the vice president of China Center and Globalization in Beijing, said China is better prepared for the trade war with the United States than Mr. Trump’s first term, as it has spread it to other non-U.S. markets.
He said that if President Xi Jinping does want to step up Beijing’s retaliation, it may stop importing U.S. gas and oil, but warned that if the trade war continues to escalate, the impact on both countries will escalate, and will end at best with a “bloody tie.”
But Gao said he believes the negotiations are still behind the scenes between us and Chinese officials and that both countries may be less interested in the deterioration, selling the tat tariffs.
Mexican president vows to retaliate against ‘unthink’ tariffs
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Tuesday that her country will respond to the Trump administration’s 25% tariff imposed by its own retaliatory and non-tariff measures, but insists on announcing exactly what it is and promises to make a statement on Sunday in Mexico City’s main square. She said she was scheduled to call Mr. Trump on Thursday this week.
The reciprocity that Mexico will take is: “No economic or commercial confrontation is started in any way, unfortunately, the opposite of what we have to do.”
“It’s unthinkable that they won’t consider the damage that this will cause to U.S. citizens and businesses, while the prices of production in our country are rising,” Sheinbaum said. “In addition, it will cause damage that will be caused by stopping job creation in both countries. No one won the decision.”
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Sheinbaum stressed how Mexico works with the United States to respond to Mr. Trump’s request to stop fentanyl from the United States and strengthen the U.S.-Mexico border to curb immigration.
“We have worked together to avoid illegal trafficking in the United States, but as we have said many times, the government must also be held responsible, as the opioid consumption crisis has caused many deaths in the United States.”
“There is no motivation or reason, nor is there any reason to support this decision that will affect our people and our country,” Sheinbaum added.
According to Bloomberg, the Mexican peso fell into the dollar while speaking on Tuesday.