Goods from country are to face an extra 10% levy from Tuesday alongside additional 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports

China, the world’s second biggest economy behind the US, will challenge American tariffs through the World Trade Organization (WTO), the country’s commerce ministry said in a statement.

It came after US President Donald Trump on Saturday ordered 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports and 10% on goods from China starting on Tuesday.

Well, we’ll have retaliatory measures. It’s unfortunate, we don’t want to do it. We’d rather have a strong trading partner with the US…

We want to ship down more products, more critical minerals, more oil. That’s what we want to do. But I can assure you what president Trump underestimates: the resilience of the Canadian people.

What’s really disturbing when president Trump is using fentanyl as a reason, lumping us in with Mexico and China – the figures from US Customs is very clear.

There’s over 9,600 kilos coming fentanyl coming from Mexico. Ours is 19 kilos, which is too much, which is point 001% of fentanyl, compared to Mexico coming into the US, compared to over 25,000 kilos of narcotics, be it heroin or cocaine, opioids coming from the US into Canada.