President Donald Trump demanded Monday that Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier stop selling airplanes in the United States unless it starts building them on American soil. "NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES! Their products aren't good enough!" Trump wrote on Truth Social.
He argued that more than 50 percent of Bombardier's revenue comes from the U.S., while Canada blocks companies such as Gulfstream Aerospace from doing business there. Newsweek reached out to the White House for comment, but was referred back to Trump's post. Newsweek reached out to Bombardier via email for comment, but did not hear back in time for publication.
The threat comes one day before Ottawa's retaliatory tariffs take effect, the latest flare-up in a trade war that continues to open new fronts. Canada's counter-tariffs on more than 700 American products, some as high as 50 percent, take effect Tuesday, matching the Trump administration's tariffs on Canadian goods, from hockey sticks to tongue depressors, dollar for dollar. Bombardier's planes are popular among some of the country's biggest names.
Oprah Winfrey has flown a Bombardier Global Express XRS for years. Jay-Z owns a Bombardier Global 7500, while a Challenger 850 that Beyoncé gave him sits alongside it. Kylie Jenner's pink-striped Global 7500, nicknamed "Kylie Air," is one of the more photographed private jets in the country.
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban also flies a Global Express of his own. Trump made an almost identical threat in January, but it went nowhere. At the time, Trump said the U.S. was decertifying Bombardier Global Express business jets and threatened 50 percent import tariffs on all aircraft made in Canada until the country's regulator certified several planes produced by U.S. rival Gulfstream.
"We are hereby decertifying their Bombardier Global Expresses, and all Aircraft made in Canada, until such time as Gulfstream, a Great American Company, is fully certified, as it should have been many years ago," Trump posted late on January 29. Neither the decertification nor the tariff happened. Canada certified several Gulfstream models, including the G500, G600, G700 and G800, the following month, quieting the dispute until Monday.
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