Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he would suspend the Canadian province’s 25% electricity surcharge on the United States on Tuesday afternoon – just hours after President Donald Trump announced additional tariffs on Canada’s steel and aluminum.
Ford, the conservative leader of Ontario, said on X he chose not to impose the surcharge on electricity exports to Michigan, New York and Minnesota after having a “productive conversation” about the economic relationship between Canada and the U.S. with Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick.
Lutnick agreed to meet with Ford and the U.S. Trade Representative in Washington D.C. on Thursday to discuss a renewed United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the free trade agreement between the North American countries.
In response to the agreement, Ford agreed to suspend the increased tax on electricity.
The decision came hours after the president threatened to double the 25 percent tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum while also heightening his desire to make Canada the 51st state.
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