Trump says he’s taking action to bar Canadian-made products from eligibility for certain U.S. government purchasing contracts.
In a post to his Truth Social platform, Trump said he is directing the General Services Administration — the independent agency that oversees federal government procurement — to remove Canadian-origin products from its “multiple award schedules.”
Those schedules account for more than $50 billion US worth of procurement per year, said Trump, but it’s unclear how much of that is made up of Canadian goods.
“The Canadian Government, including Canadian Provinces, have banned American Small Businesses and Companies from selling into their Government Procurement Markets,” said Trump in the post. “From now on, NO RECIPROCITY – NO ACCESS!”
Trump said the removal would stay in place “unless Canada restores full and fair reciprocity for American Farmers and Companies.”
Canada should do the same.
However I’ll point out the US (DoD was my experience) already has a point system for procurement which would penalised a Canadian company’s bid. So saying don’t buy Canadian is a but redundant since they already have a police slanted against doing so.
Canada doesn’t. It would have been against free trade and we would have been punished under the appeals process.
Most provinces have already done that.
And predictably, the Americans have whined no fair and called it a “trade irritant”.