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Ontario premier says U.S. indicated Canada will see lower auto tariffs

C.C. Wei, chief executive officer of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), from left, US President Donald Trump, and Howard Lutnick, US commerce secretary, during an investment announcement in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, March 3, 2025. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's top producer of AI chips, plans to invest an additional $100 billion in US plants that will boost its chip output on American soil and support President Donald Trump's goal of increasing domestic manufacturing. Photographer: Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg
U.S. President Donald Trump, left, signed an executive order March 26 to impose 25 per cent levies on all automobile and auto part imports. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, right, says Canada has a chance to avoid them. (BLOOMBERG)
March 27, 2025 07:28 PM

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said on March 27 he was told by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick this week that Canadian-made vehicles with 50 per cent or more American parts will not face the tariffs set to hit all imports into the United States next week.

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