Trump threatens to block Bombardier sales in US

Donald Trump has warned Canadian aircraft maker Bombardier that it will no longer be allowed to sell in the United States unless it manufactures there, according to Euronews. The threat, posted on Trump’s Truth Social account, lands as US and Canadian tariffs are set to bite deeper after talks to avoid new duties collapsed in late August.

The episode shows how trade policy is being run as an on-demand lever rather than a negotiated framework. Euronews reports that 50% US duties on roughly C$28 billion of Canadian goods took effect in late August, after both sides accused the other of trying to insert last-minute changes into negotiations. Canada, in turn, announced retaliatory measures on roughly C$27.6 billion of US imports, with levies due to take effect on September 8 targeting sectors including steel and aluminium, appliances, dairy, agricultural equipment, plastics, pulp and paper, and electronics.

Bombardier is being pulled into that wider fight as a visible industrial symbol with customers, service networks, and regulatory touchpoints that can be pressured quickly. Trump’s post framed the company as living off “American buyers, American companies, American airports, and American service,” while also claiming its products “aren’t good enough,” a mix of industrial policy and consumer disparagement that does not depend on a formal investigation. Euronews notes Trump had already threatened in January to impose a 50% tariff on all aircraft sold to the US and to decertify Bombardier aircraft, after Canada refused to certify certain US-made Gulfstream planes.

For Canada, the dispute turns certification—normally a technical process—into a bargaining chip with spillovers across sectors far from aviation. For US buyers and airports, the message is that access to cross-border supply chains can be conditioned on domestic production promises, even when the immediate conflict is elsewhere. The tariff lists described by Euronews sweep up politically legible products, from hockey sticks and wine to cement, while the aircraft threat adds a headline-grabbing corporate target that can be singled out without rewriting the entire tariff schedule.

Trump’s latest warning does not announce a new rule or a signed order; it announces a boundary line and invites the company to move factories to cross it. The retaliatory tariffs are scheduled to begin on September 8, and Bombardier’s US market access is now being discussed in the same breath as dairy, cement and hockey sticks.