President Trump on Monday signaled he could impose new tariffs on agricultural products, including Canadian fertilizer and Indian rice. Trump spoke Monday at a White House event to announce new aid for farmers, some of whom said cheaper imports are making it difficult for their products to compete in the marketplace. Trump said he would “take care” of alleged dumping of Indian rice into the U.S. and suggested targeting fertilizer imported from Canada to boost domestic production, Bloomberg reported. Some farmers have blamed imports for falling U.S. rice prices, saying countries such as India, Vietnam and Thailand are undercutting the U.S. rice crops. “They shouldn’t be dumping,” Trump said. “I mean, I heard that, I heard that from others. You can’t do that.” Trump similarly suggested he could target fertilizer imported from Canada to boost domestic production. “A lot of it does come in from Canada, and so we’ll end up putting very severe tariffs on that, if we have to, because that’s the way you want to bolster here,” Trump said. “And we can do it here. We can all do that here.”
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