Trade dispute: Trump threatens to ban Canadian aircraft maker Bombardier from U.S. sales

Donald Trump has threatened to shut Bombardier out of the U.S. market unless the Canadian aircraft maker manufactures in the United States. “No more Bombardier sales in the United States! Their products are not good enough!” Trump wrote on his online platform.

Trump did not explain how he would enforce the proposed ban. Bombardier had not initially issued a response. The company makes business jets, employs 3,500 people in the United States, and operates several factories and service centers there. It manufactures wings for its flagship Global 8000 in Texas and has a defense division in Kansas.

The United States accounts for about half of the roughly 5,100 Bombardier aircraft currently in service worldwide. The company also produces rail vehicles, giving it a substantial industrial presence beyond aviation.

The threat came during a trade dispute between Canada and the United States that escalated after negotiations failed in August. Both countries imposed tariffs on each other's exports, including cars, steel and furniture.

The article also places Trump's latest threat alongside other recent statements and gestures involving Canada's relationship with the United States. Trump published a map depicting Canada, Mexico, Cuba and Iceland as part of the United States, without commenting on it, and ordered Lake Ontario renamed “Lake America.” He has repeatedly floated the idea of incorporating other countries and islands, including suggesting that Canada could become the 51st U.S. state and arguing that the United States should buy Greenland.

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No more Bombardier sales in the United States! Their products are not good enough!