While he was announcing $12 billion in tariff-relief subsidies for farmers, United States President threatened to impose new tariffs on fertilizer from Canada.
He also threatened to impose tariffs on rice from India.
He said the imports are making it difficult for U.S. companies to compete.
Nutrien is the world’s largest fertilizer producer and is based in Saskatoon.
Trump said a lot of it (fertilizer) does come in from Canada, and so we’ll end up putting very severe tariffs on that, if we have to, because that’s the way you want to bolster here,.
“And we can do it here. We can all do that here.”
