US President Donald Trump has announced he plans to hike tariffs on imports of Canadian goods by an extra 10 per cent because of an anti-tariff television ad using the words of former president Ronald Reagan aired by the province of Ontario.

Trump’s post on Truth Social on Sunday (AEDT) follows days of public clashes over the ad, which used excerpts from a 1987 Reagan speech defending free trade and slamming tariffs as an outdated notion that stifles innovation, drives up prices and hurts US workers.

On Friday (AEDT), Trump suspended trade negotiations with Canada. The next day, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he would pull the ad after the weekend so that trade talks could resume. However, Trump escalated his response because the ad ran during the first game of the baseball World Serie

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