Trump Threatens 100% Tariffs If Canada Finalizes China EV Trade Deal

President Donald Trump threatened Saturday to slap a 100% tariff on all Canadian imports if Prime Minister Mark Carney proceeds with a new trade agreement that cuts Canadian tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles in exchange for lower Chinese duties on Canadian farm products. In a social‑media post from Washington, Trump warned Carney against turning Canada into a 'Drop Off Port' for Chinese goods entering the U.S., escalating a dispute that sits on top of existing U.S. auto and metals tariffs and this year’s scheduled review of the Canada‑U.S.-Mexico Agreement. The threat comes as Trump’s push to acquire Greenland and his rhetoric about absorbing Canada as a '51st state' are already straining NATO and North American relations, and as Carney positions himself at Davos as a leader of 'middle powers' seeking to counter Trump’s unilateralism. Canada had earlier mirrored U.S. 100% EV and 25% steel and aluminum tariffs on China, but the new Ottawa–Beijing deal marks a deliberate divergence from Washington’s trade war and a bid to ease Chinese retaliation on Canadian canola, pork and seafood. If Trump follows through, a blanket 100% tariff on Canadian goods would roil cross‑border supply chains—from autos and energy to agriculture—hit U.S. consumers and exporters, and turn a tactical dispute over Chinese EVs into a major U.S.–Canada trade confrontation.