Trumps 25% steel, aluminum tariffs add on to Canada and Mexico duties: W.House [Video]

US President Donald Trump’s planned 25-percent tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports will stack on the hefty duties earlier announced on Canada and Mexico, a White House official told AFP Wednesday.

Trump had in early February unveiled sweeping tariffs of 25 percent on Canadian and Mexican goods, with a lower rate of 10 percent on Canadian energy imports.

But shortly after making that announcement, he halted the blanket levies on the United States’ immediate neighbors for a month as both countries vowed to step up measures against illegal immigration and fentanyl smuggling.

If those tariffs are reimposed at the end of a 30-day deadline, the levies on Canadian and Mexican steel and aluminum could hit 50 percent, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Canada’s finance minister Dominic LeBlanc, who is in Washington with Canadian provincial leaders, told reporters Wednesday that Ottawa would not get ahead of America’s …