Trump's 25% Tariffs on All Steel and Aluminum Imports Go into Effect

John Murphy (composer)u.S. Chamber of Commerce vice president

If you’re an executive in the boardroom, are you really going to tell your board it’s the time to expand that assembly line

said John Murphy, senior vice president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

To be that dependent on a country, and then to have them be able to hold this over our heads, I think we have to look at the way we're doing business and we may have to do it a little differently,

Johannson said

The higher it goes, the more likely it is they’re going to build,

Trump told the group

Steel and aluminum are about strength; these tariffs do nothing but weaken us both. President Trump may as well hand over North America’s steel and aluminum leadership to China,

Canadian Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Candace Laing said in a statement Tuesday

Based on Ontario, Canada, placing a 25 percent Tariff on Electricity coming into the United States, I have instructed my Secretary of Commerce to add an ADDITIONAL 25 percent Tariff, to 50 percent, on all STEEL and ALUMINUM COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES FROM CANADA, ONE OF THE HIGHEST TARIFFING NATIONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD,

Trump said in a post on social media Truth Social

If other egregious, long time Tariffs are not likewise dropped by Canada, I will substantially increase, on April 2nd, the Tariffs on Cars coming into the U.S.,

Trump added

This will go into effect TOMORROW MORNING, March 12th,

Trump said

That’s not going to happen [making it the best company in the world] in the next three to five years. That will happen during a period from three years onwards and then I will reflect with the board as to what my view is [on his role],

he said