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Trump’s Auto Zölle – Canada is considering retribution
Updated on March 27, 2025 – 01:14 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
US President Trump announces high tariffs to auto imports. The scandal for secret information in a chat draws further circles. All developments in the news blog.
The Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney describes the new auto tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump as a direct attack on the Canadian employees. In front of reporters in Kitchener, Ontario, Carney said, he would convene a high -ranking meeting of the cabinet minister on Thursday to discuss trade options. “We will defend our workers, we will defend our companies, we will defend our country and we will defend it together,” he said. Canada is considering retaliation against the United States, continued Carney. There were also first reactions to Trump’s new tariffs from Germany and the EU.
Republican Senator Mike Rounds, who is a member of the intelligence agency, demands that the Trump government take the lead in the event of an investigation to find out to what extent the discussion about the military strategy has endangered national security. Other Republicans also require information.
The national security advisor of US President Donald Trump, Mike Waltz, claims to take over the “full responsibility” for the accidental parts of attack plans of the US military in a chat group with a journalist. “I take full responsibility,” said Waltz on Tuesday in his first interview since the incidents became known in Fox News. “I founded this group.” Read more here.
