\n<\/p>\n
US president says Ontario government\u2019s anti-tariff ad featuring Ronald Reagan needed to be taken down \u2018immediately\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n United States President Donald Trump has announced an additional 10 percent levy on Canadian goods over a contentious anti-tariff advertisement featuring former US leader Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n The announcement on Saturday came two days after Trump terminated all trade talks with Canada over what he called a \u201cfake\u201d campaign run by the Canadian province of Ontario.<\/p>\n list of 3 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n The advertisement features a video of Reagan, a Republican icon, saying that tariffs cause trade wars and economic disaster.<\/p>\n Ontario Premier Doug Ford said on Friday that he would pull the advertisement after the weekend so that trade talks could resume.<\/p>\n The advertisement ran on Friday night, during the broadcast for Game 1 of Major League Baseball\u2019s World Series, in which the Toronto Blue Jays are facing off against the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n \u201cTheir Advertisement was to be taken down, IMMEDIATELY, but they let it run last night during the World Series, knowing that it was a FRAUD,\u201d Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform as he flew on board Air Force One to Malaysia.<\/p>\n \u201cBecause of their serious misrepresentation of the facts, and hostile act, I am increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they are paying now.\u201d<\/p>\n The Canadian government did not immediately comment on Trump\u2019s announcement of additional tariffs on Saturday.<\/p>\n It was not clear what goods would be affected by Trump\u2019s newly announced tariffs. The majority of Canadian exports to the US are exempt from tariffs because of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which was signed during Trump\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n In August, the Trump administration imposed a 35 percent tariff on Canadian goods not covered by the USMCA. But Canada\u2019s economy has suffered from Trump\u2019s sector tariffs of 50 percent imposed this year on steel and aluminium from all countries.<\/p>\n The advertisement run by the Ontario government features a 1980s speech by Reagan in which the former Republican leader had warned against the ramifications that high tariffs on foreign imports could have on the US economy.<\/p>\nRecommended Stories <\/h2>\n