President Donald Trump said Monday that Canadian aerospace company Bombardier should no longer be allowed to sell its planes in the United States, opening a new front in their trade war hours before new Canadian tariffs on American products took effect. The move drew an objection hours later from Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., whose state is home to Bombardier’s U.S. headquarters. It is the latest example of reaction by Republican senators against Trump’s trade policy in Canada, which has caused tariffs to come and go months before the midterm elections. “NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES!” Trump wrote in a Monday post on Truth Social. “Their products are not good enough!” Trump further charged that the company relies on “American buyers, American businesses, American airports, and American services, all while Canada blocks our BIG American banks and businesses across the United States.” “If they want our market,” Trump added, “they need to build here and stop treating the United States like a ‘piggy bank.’” The president’s letter provoked a response from Bombardier, which defended its investments in the United States, and from Moran, who in a publication on X noted that the company is a major employer in his state. “Bombardier’s presence in Wichita supports a local workforce of more than one thousand employees, who contribute their talents and expertise to our nation’s aerospace and defense capabilities,” Moran wrote. “This afternoon, I reached out to the Trump administration to ensure the president is aware of Bombardier’s important contributions to Kansas and the importance of its presence in Wichita to many Kansas workers at Bombardier and in the Bombardier supply chain,” Moran added. In its statement, Bombardier described itself as “a strong contributor” to the American aerospace industry that is responsible for “creating tens of thousands of jobs across the United States.” “Bombardier’s American workers are based throughout the United States with sites in Kansas, Texas, Arizona, Florida, Connecticut, Illinois, Delaware, California, Washington DC and New Jersey, as well as an overall direct employment presence in more than 20 states,” the company said. Bombardier also highlighted a strong U.S. supply chain, as well as the “Significantly, the wings of the world’s fastest business jet are manufactured by American workers at Bombardier’s Red Oak, Texas, facility, while crucial flight control components are manufactured at Bombardier’s Los Angeles, California, area facilities,” the company added. “Bombardier has also announced extensive plans to grow its defense activities as well as its service network and will open a new facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana later this year.” Trump’s clash with the company comes amid a trade war in which the president imposed new tariffs on Canadian goods and signed an executive order to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. Canada responded to Trump’s tariffs by announcing retaliatory tariffs on nearly $20 billion worth of goods. Those tariffs went into effect at midnight Tuesday.
