“If for any reason this situation is not immediately corrected, I will charge Canada a 50% tariff on all aircraft sold into the United States of America,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
Soar Aviation Law lawyer Amanda Applegate, a US specialist in business aviation law, said on Friday that the post had raised questions from customers who own or want to buy Bombardier planes.
There are also broader tensions between the neighbors after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney last week, citing US trade policy, urged countries to accept the end of the rules-based world order that Washington had once advocated.
Aircraft and aerospace parts have largely escaped the impact of Trump’s US-led trade war, with Canadian-made planes continuing to be exported south of the border under the USMCA trade deal.
Trump also said he was “decertifying their Bombardier Global Expresses and all Canadian-made aircraft” until the Gulfstream planes were certified. Gulfstream is owned by General Dynamics. If carried out, this threat would drastically impact U.S. airlines like American Airlines and Delta Air Lines, which rely on Canadian-made aircraft for many of their regional services. The United States is also the world’s largest market for business aviation.
Data provider Cirium has said there are 150 Global Express aircraft in service, registered in the US, operated by 115 operators, and a total of 5,425 aircraft of various types, made in Canada, in service, registered in the US, including narrowbody jets, regional jets and helicopters.
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