{"id":4298,"date":"2025-02-11T08:05:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T08:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=4298"},"modified":"2025-02-11T08:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T08:05:17","slug":"when-donald-trump-announced-a-25-per-cent-tariff-on-all-steel-and-aluminium-imports-to-the-us-the-canadians-responded-swiftly-that-it-was-completely-unreasonable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=4298","title":{"rendered":"When Donald Trump announced a 25 per cent tariff on all steel and aluminium imports to the US, the Canadians responded swiftly that it was completely unreasonable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump Thursday imposed a 25% tariff on all imports of steel and aluminum, US media reported. In addition, the latest measures also eliminate duty-free steel and aluminum quotas and exemptions for some trading partners. According to the Guardian, Canada&#8217;s Minister of Innovation, Science and industry, Pengfei Shang, reacted swiftly to Donald Trump&#8217;s move later in the day, calling it\u201cCompletely unreasonable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4299\" title=\"9d6fa960e162387cd87a9da8e1d932f6u1\" src=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9d6fa960e162387cd87a9da8e1d932f6u1.png\" alt=\"9d6fa960e162387cd87a9da8e1d932f6u1\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9d6fa960e162387cd87a9da8e1d932f6u1.png 1160w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9d6fa960e162387cd87a9da8e1d932f6u1-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9d6fa960e162387cd87a9da8e1d932f6u1-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9d6fa960e162387cd87a9da8e1d932f6u1-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1160px) 100vw, 1160px\" \/><br \/>\nPresident Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb. 10,2010. Photo: US media<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile examining the impact [ of the US measures ] , we are consulting with our international partners,\u201d Shang said in a post on social media platform X, \u201cOur response will be clear and targeted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On February 10, President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing a 25 percent tariff on all imports of steel and aluminum. Donald Trump also said that day that there were\u201cNo exceptions or exemptions\u201d from the requirements. US tariffs of 25 per cent on steel and aluminium will take effect on March 4, according to White House officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump Thursday imposed a 25% tariff on all imports of steel and aluminum, US media reported. In addition, the latest measures also eliminate duty-free steel and aluminum&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,260],"tags":[711,350,1740,1739],"views":348,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4300,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions\/4300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}