Washington.- The head of the Government of the Province of Ontario, Doug Ford, insisted that Mexico has to match the tariffs that EU and Canada impose on Chinese products and implement a process to block the investments with which China wants to “undermine” North American economies.
In a speech in the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington, Ford said that the enemy is China who is “cheating American workers, flooding markets and appropriating global supply chains.”
The Head of Government of Ontario, the most industrial in Canada, added that we must put “an end to the traffic through Mexico of Chinese products towards the markets of the US and Canada”.
Ontario is the heart of the Canadian automobile and steel industry.
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In addition, that “all the members of the TMEC need to match or overcome the US tariff Chinese investments that point to undermine ”North American economies.
When at the end of 2024, Donald Trump said he would apply 25% tariff Mexican economy
Ford then accused Mexico of negatively impacting the Canadian economy.
“If Mexico wants a bilateral trade agreement with Canada, may God bless you. But I am not going to let me sink with these cheap imports that take jobs of men and women of Ontario, ”he said in November 2024.
Last year, the Canadian government announced 100% tariffs to the importation of Chinese electric vehicles, as well as another 25% to steel and aluminum from the Asian giant, matching the rates announced by the United States.
Ford indicated that 25% tariffs with which Trump threatens Canada will destroy up to 500,000 jobs in Ontario.
With EFE information
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