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President Donald Trump speaks with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the NATO summit in Turkey this month. (Yves Herman\/Reuters)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to impose tariffs on Canada in retaliation for wildfire smoke<\/a>, but it was not clear that he has the legal authority to impose such a levy.<\/p>

Read more Trump urges Sen. Darline Graham to run for full term<\/a><\/p>\n

The White House did not respond to questions about what legal mechanism he would use to impose the tariffs or how the administration would calculate the rate of the levies. Trump wrote in a Truth Social post that the cost of the pollution was \u201cincalculable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are holding Canada responsible for the fact that they are not properly maintaining their Forests, and Brush therein, and the United States is being unnecessarily invaded by filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air, the quality of which is dangerous, and totally unacceptable!\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Trump added that he planned to call Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to discuss the fires, amid economic tensions between the United States and its northern neighbor.<\/p>\n

Canada and China were the only two countries that implemented retaliatory tariffs in response to Trump\u2019s \u201cLiberation Day\u201d levies last year, and formal negotiations between the United States and Canada have not started over the future<\/u><\/a> of a crucial North American trade pact.<\/p>\n

Trump has a history of threatening tariffs in response to grievances and not following through. Last year, he repeatedly threatened <\/u><\/a>a 100 percent tariff on foreign films; it never materialized.<\/p>

Read more House GOP seeks to push funding deadline to avoid shutdown before midterms<\/a><\/p>\n

He asserted that imported films posed \u201ca National Security threat\u201d of \u201cmessaging and propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court this year also significantly constrained Trump\u2019s ability to implement<\/u><\/a> tariffs when it ruled that he could not use emergency powers to enact levies.<\/p>\n

This stripped the president of a key instrument he had used to try to coerce foreign leaders and reshape world order in his second term.<\/p>\n

Following the court\u2019s ruling, Trump implemented a global 10 percent tariff under a different trade law, but that levy is scheduled to expire next week.<\/p>\n

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The White House did not respond to questions about what legal mechanism he would use to impose the tariffs or how the administration would calculate the rate of the levies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"\nTrump wants to impose tariffs on Canada in retaliation for wildfire smoke - Moving Insider USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=7748\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump wants to impose tariffs on Canada in retaliation for wildfire smoke - Moving Insider USA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The White House did not respond to questions about what legal mechanism he would use to impose the tariffs or how the administration would calculate the rate of the levies.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=7748\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Moving Insider USA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-07-17T21:37:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/629b084652922a5eae043842c3205310.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2416\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1616\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/?p=7748#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/?p=7748\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/22d40ab81790f6a361021763bb56ef03\"},\"headline\":\"Trump wants to impose tariffs on Canada in retaliation for wildfire smoke\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-07-17T21:37:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/?p=7748\"},\"wordCount\":406,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/?p=7748#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/915993c65814a64a03b4e03176b28c92.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Interesting\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/?p=7748#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/?p=7748\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/?p=7748\",\"name\":\"Trump wants to impose tariffs on Canada in retaliation for wildfire smoke - Moving Insider USA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/?p=7748#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/?p=7748#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/915993c65814a64a03b4e03176b28c92.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-07-17T21:37:40+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/22d40ab81790f6a361021763bb56ef03\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/?p=7748#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/?p=7748\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/?p=7748#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/915993c65814a64a03b4e03176b28c92.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/915993c65814a64a03b4e03176b28c92.jpg\",\"width\":2416,\"height\":1616,\"caption\":\"U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney at a meeting of the North Atlantic Council (NAC) during the NATO leaders' summit in Ankara, Turkey, July 8, 2026. 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