“No more selling Bombardier in the United States!” President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday, claiming that more than 50% of the Canadian aircraft maker’s revenue comes from the US market.
He said the country should bar the company’s planes outright. His argument: Canada unfairly shuts American firms out of its own market. Trump named Gulfstream Aerospace as an example, saying Canada had stopped it from doing business there. He called that “Completely unjust and unfair!”
“That era is over! if they want our market, they must build here,” he wrote. He also told Americans to “buy American” and “fly on American airliners.”
Bombardier answers
The company pushed back. It described the US aerospace industry as “a clear winner on trade and exports” and said it is a “strong contributor to the sector.”
Bombardier put numbers on that. Its operations support “tens of thousands of jobs across the United States,” it said, with employees in more than 20 states and “over $2.5 billion” spent with suppliers each year. Its aircraft carry “American-made components,” the company added, engines and avionics among them. It also said it plans to expand its US service and defense network.
“Bombardier values its great partnership with American companies and its US employees,” the company said. “Our plan is to continue to invest in our people, our customers and the communities in which we operate across the country.”
A wider trade fight
The post lands in the middle of a worsening dispute. Trade talks between the two countries collapsed last month, and Washington then moved to put 50% tariffs on key Canadian goods.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has promised dollar-for-dollar retaliation starting Tuesday.
