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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump hit back at Canada on Sunday after Prime Minister Mark Carney announced retaliatory tariffs on the United States following a breakdown in trade negotiations.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cCanada wants the benefits of being a State, without being one!!!\u201d Trump said in a post on Truth Social.<\/p>\n \u201cThey have also charged our great farmers, for many years, massive amounts of Tariffs. No more!!!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n New 50-percent US tariffs impacting about $20 billion worth of goods, or 5.5 percent of Canadian exports to the US, came into force Saturday.<\/p>\n Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Saturday \u200bthat starting September 8 Canada would impose tariffs on imports from \u200cthe United States across a raft of sectors in retaliation for President Donald Trump\u2019s new 50% tariffs that came into effect from midnight.<\/p>\n After \u200bdays of intense negotiations, the two countries failed to \u200breach a trade deal late Friday, worsening an already delicate relationship \u2060between the two long-term trade partners and allies and \u200bcomplicating the future of a highly successful continental free trade pact \u200bcalled the U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s new tariffs hit a slew of sectors including wine, furniture, dairy products, cement, clothing, fishing rods, hockey equipment and \u200bcover some $20 billion of Canadian exports south of the border. \u200bThese duties do not give exemption to Canadian products under the USMCA, \u200cwhich \u2060have shielded most of Canadian exports to the U.S in the last 18 months.<\/p>\n \u201cCanada will match Washington\u2019s new tariffs dollar for dollar in order to protect Canadian workers, farmers, families, \u200band businesses,\u201d Carney said \u200bat a news \u2060conference.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n