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WORLD NEWS Friday 10 January 2025
U.S. orange juice and steel will be on Canada’s list for retaliation if

Trump imposes tariffs

By ROB GILLIES products. Almost a quarter
Associated Press of the oil the U.S. consumes
TORONTO (AP) — Canada every day is from Canada,
is looking at putting re- with Alberta exporting 4.3
taliatory tariffs on Ameri- million barrels a day to the
can orange juice, toilets U.S. According to the U.S.
and some steel products Energy Information Admin-
if U.S. President-elect Don- istration, the U.S. consumes
ald Trump follows through about 20 million barrels a
with his threat to impose day, while domestically
25% tariffs on all Canadian producing about 13.2 mil-
products, a senior official lion barrels a day.
familiar with the matter said Ford warned that Canada
Thursday. will retaliate if Trump impos-
The official said the wide- es tariffs.
ranging list hasn’t been He said a wide range of
completed yet. The official U.S. products shipped to
spoke on condition of ano- Canada will be targeted,
nymity as they were not au- but he declined to specify
thorized to speak publicly which ones.
on the matter. Top Canadian government
Trump said this week he In this Oct. 12, 2007 file photo, a for sale sign sits among an acreage of orange trees in Bartow, Fla. officials say Trump’s com-
will use economic coer- Associated Press ments that Canada should
cion to pressure Canada to become the 51st state are
become the nation’s 51st Canada, for instance, an- A lot of citrus production troit and then sold back to no longer a joke and are
state. And he continues to nounced billions of new happens in Florida, now Canada. meant to undermine Amer-
erroneously cast the U.S. duties in 2018 against the Trump’s home state. Ontario Premier Doug Ford ica’s closest ally.

trade deficit with Canada U.S. in a tit-for-tat response Trump said this week the has noted that in the auto “The joke is over,” Domi-
a natural resource-rich na- to new taxes on Canadian U.S doesn’t need anything sector alone parts can go nic LeBlanc, the country’s
tion that provides the U.S. steel and aluminum. from Canada, including back and forth across the finance minister and point
with commodities like oil as Yogurt imports from Wis- automobiles, lumber and Canada-U.S. border sev- person for U.S.-Canada re-
a subsidy. consin and whiskey from dairy products. Supply eral times. lations, said Wednesday.
When Trump imposed Kentucky, the home states chains for the auto indus- Ford, the leader of Cana- “It’s a way for him, I think, to
higher tariffs during his first of top Republicans Paul try are deeply connected, da’s most populous prov- sow confusion, to agitate
term in office, other coun- Ryan and Mitch McConnell with parts manufactured in ince, said Trump has been people, to create chaos
tries responded with retal- respectively, were hit with Ontario being used in cars misinformed about the U.S. knowing this will never
iatory tariffs of their own. 10% duties in 2018. that are assembled in De- not needing Canadian happen.”q

Guyana to seek help from U.N.’s top court as Venezuela vies for

control of disputed territory

By BERT WILKINSON anese nationals who live thority of the court as the gust to reply to arguments oil and gas were discov-
Associated Press in Guyana’s sovereign ter- principal judicial organ of made by Guyana. ered off Guyana’s coast
GEORGETOWN, Guyana ritory,” the ministry said. “It the United Nations.” Venezuela’s interest in the in 2015, with oil production
(AP) — Guyana said Thurs- would be a flagrant viola- Venezuela has always con- Essequibo region peaked currently at 650,000 barrels
day that it will seek help tion of the most fundamen- sidered Essequibo as its after massive quantities of a day.q
from the United Nations’ tal principles of interna- own because the region
top court to deter plans by tional law, enshrined in the was within its boundaries
neighboring Venezuela to U.N. Charter, for Venezuela during the Spanish colo-
elect a governor to rule its to attempt to conduct an nial period. It has long dis-
western Essequibo region, election in Guyanese terri- missed the border drawn
an area rich in resources tory involving the participa- by international arbitrators
long claimed by Venezu- tion of Guyanese nation- in 1899, when Guyana was
ela as its own. als.” still a British colony.
Guyana’s foreign ministry The ministry said it would ask After years of fruitless medi-
said in a statement that the International Court of ation, Guyana went to the
Venezuela’s plan violates Justice in The Netherlands world court in 2018, asking
a December 2022 agree- for provisional measures to judges to rule that the 1899
ment between the two stop Venezuela in its tracks border decision is valid and
countries to not trigger if it goes ahead with plans binding. Venezuela argues
conflict or escalate ten- to elect a governor of Esse- that a 1966 agreement to
sions over the mineral- and quibo. It said plans by Ven- resolve the dispute effec- Chairman of the Special Commission for the Defense of Guyana
oil-rich region comprising ezuela to administratively tively nullified the original Essequibo Hermann Escarra, stands next to Venezuela’s new
two-thirds of Guyana’s incorporate Essequibo into arbitration. map that includes the Essequibo territory, a swath of land
land mass. Venezuela “not only jeop- A ruling is not expected that is administered and controlled by Guyana but claimed
“The people of Guyana’s ardize the judicial process this year because Venezu- by Venezuela, during an unveiling ceremony in Caracas,
Essequibo region are Guy- but also undermine the au- ela was given until late Au- Venezuela, Dec. 8, 2023.
Associated Press