President Donald Trump called for Bombardier to be shut out of the American market, declaring in a social media post that the Canadian plane manufacturer’s aircraft "aren't good enough." "NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES!" he wrote in a Truth Social post Monday. "If they want our Market, they must build here, and stop treating America like a 'piggybank.'" Trump’s post closed with a call to "BUY AMERICAN. FLY ON AMERICAN AIRLINERS.
ENJOY AMERICAN LIQUOR AND BEVERAGES. SAIL ON LAKE AMERICA.” Monday's post lands a fortnight into a renewed trade war with Canada that shows no sign of easing. The U.S.’s 50 percent tariffs took effect last month on roughly $28 billion of Canadian exports after Prime Minister Mark Carney walked away from trade talks.
Ottawa has promised to retaliate dollar-for-dollar and Canada’s tariffs are set to begin at midnight Tuesday. It is the second time this year the president has threatened Bombardier, a Montreal-based manufacturer, by name and appeared to be the latest escalation in the trade war he started with America’s northern neighbor last month. It comes five days after Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that the first threat to Bombardier had begun as a favor for a wealthy friend who he claimed was unable to buy a Gulfstream jet — made by an American manufacturer — in Canada.
Trump claimed Canada was unfairly preventing Gulfstream from selling aircraft to protect the company’s domestic competitor and threatened to bar Bombardier from American markets in response. The president has no authority to bar a foreign manufacturer's aircraft from being sold in the U.S. Certification is the responsibility of the Federal Aviation Administration and is granted or withdrawn on airworthiness grounds.
Trump made a similar claim on January 29, saying the U.S. was "decertifying" the Bombardier Global Express - however the aircraft was never decertified, and White House officials clarified at the time that any restriction would apply only to new aircraft rather than the more than 5,400 Canadian-made planes and helicopters already on the U.S. register. Several of the claims in Monday’s Truth Social post are false, and one of them the president disproved himself last week. He wrote that Canada "even blocked Gulfstream Aerospace from doing business in Canada — Completely unjust and unfair!
That Era is OVER!" Transport Canada certified the Gulfstream G500 and G600 on February 16 and the G700 and G800 on February 23. Trump described the resolution himself in the Oval Office Wednesday, claiming credit for it. Trump also repeated the baseless assertion that Canada "blocks our GREAT American Banks." Sixteen U.S. bank subsidiaries and branches operate in Canada under the country's Schedule II framework.
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