Trump administration ban on $1B in Canadian imports goes into effect

President Trump’s ban on nearly $1 billion worth of Canadian goods went into effect Tuesday, marking the latest salvo in a trade war between the U.S. and its longtime ally to the north.

The restrictions include Canadian dairy products, motor vehicles and many alcoholic beverages. Trump, in signing the executive orders to ban the goods , cited Canadian “discrimination” against the American equivalents .

Jacob Jensen, the director of trade policy at the center-right American Action Forum, told The Associated Press the limits cover $967 million worth of Canadian imports, based on 2025 data.

Last year, U.S. businesses imported roughly $382 billion worth of goods from Canada, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The president last month slapped 50 percent tariffs on $27.6 billion worth of Canadian products, levies that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government matched “dollar for dollar.”

Trump justified his latest action under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, which gives the U.S. government authority to block the importation of certain products if the president determines a foreign country has discriminated against American commerce.

He has repeatedly attacked Carney and Ottawa amid the trade tensions , saying Monday the Canadian government has “treated the U.S. very unfairly” by charging American businesses for exports.

“They have been one of the worst countries in the entire world,” the president told reporters in the Oval Office, later adding Canadian officials “feel entitled.”

Carney, meanwhile, has used the trade dispute with Trump to shift his country’s cooperative focus elsewhere.

During an address to the European Parliament earlier this month, the second-year prime minister said his country and Europe are “stronger together.”

“We can ally by function, if we are bold and deliberate,” he said, a day after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen backed adding Canada as the European Union’s first associate member.