Trump Threatened Canada With Higher Tariffs Over "Negligence" Regarding Forests
3- 18.07.2026, 9:27
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The U.S. president accused Canadian authorities of failing to clean up trash in forested areas.
U.S. President Donald Trump accused Canadian authorities of failing to clean up litter in forested areas, which, he said, leads to air pollution in the U.S., and threatened to force Canada to compensate for this “negligence” by raising tariffs.
“We hold Canada responsible for failing to properly maintain its forests and brushlands, and for subjecting the United States to an unnecessary influx of dirty and harmful air, the quality of which is at dangerous and completely unacceptable levels! I will call Prime Minister [Mark Carney] this afternoon to find out what they plan to do about this,” he wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social.
Trump claims that Canada “has abandoned basic forest management and trash cleanup, knowing full well that such neglect would lead to exactly this result.”
“This is willful negligence that has become an annual occurrence, costing the United States billions of dollars, and the cost of this pollution must be added to the tariffs that Canada currently pays,” the U.S. president stated.