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First on the fox: The CEO of the largest U.S. steel producer, Corp Core, approved the President Donald TrumpThe rates in China, Canada and Mexico, Fox News Digital.

“Nurse applauds the first steps taken by President Trump on his first commercial agenda in America,” said Leon J. Topalian, president, president and CEO Core Corp. “We hope to work with President Trump to enforce our commercial laws and strengthen the North -American manufacturing!”

The letter of the letter of the letter reads: “Presidential executive orders in Canada, Mexico and the People’s Republic China.”

Core is headquartered in North Carolina and serves as the largest producer of steel and scrap recycler in the country.

Trump defends the rates, accuses Canada of being “very abusive of the United States”: video

The CEO of the company recently joined Jim Cramer of CNBC and celebrated the Trump rates that came to the tools to end the “currency manipulation” and the “subsidies” of the steel that came to the states Joined from abroad.

“We saw the note last Monday on rates and what they will do,” said Topalian on Tuesday. “And I think they will be at high reach and I think they will be very wide to stop, again, illegal dumping, manipulation, currency manipulation and Grant of steels that enter the US shores “

“We are the largest steel company in North America, so of course we took a look a year and a half ago, and we will continue to look and see if these assets return,” he said. “But part of the reason we have not advanced is the rating. We are not going to pay the assets.”

Core frustrated once a Chinese attempt to steal their technology

Trump signed an executive order on Saturday, authorizing the rates in Mexico, Canada and China through the new International Law on Emergency Economic Powers. The rates come into effect on Tuesday and include 25% of rates to the imports of Canada and Mexico and a 10% rate to imports from China. Canada’s energy resources will have a rate of less than 10%.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on February 1, 2025, authorizing the rates in Mexico, Canada and China through the new International Law on Emergency Economic Powers. (Getty’s pictures)

The rates were created in the light of “extraordinary” threats derived from “alien and illegal drugs, including fatal fentanil”, according to the order.

CEO of Core on Rates: We have been in a trade war for 30 years

“This challenge threatens the fabric of our society,” says the executive order. “Band members, smugglers, human traffickers and illicit drugs of all kinds have poured into our borders and our communities.

“Canada has played a central role in these challenges, including non -engaged in sufficient care and resources or coordinating significantly with the partners of the United States Law to effectively curb the tide of illicit drugs” .

The rates were created in the light of “extraordinary” threats derived from “alien and illegal drugs, including the fatal fentanyl”, according to the executive order of President Donald Trump. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Foreign leaders have faced the rates. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Saturday that her country “categorically rejected the white house slander against the Mexican government of having alliances with criminal organizations, as well as any intention of intervention in our territory.”

Meanwhile, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau encouraged residents to “buy Canada” by checking labels in stores to ensure that a product is manufactured in the large white north.

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Trump defended his rates on Sunday evening as he talked to journalists gathered at the joint base Andrews in Maryland.

The CEO of the largest U.S. steel producer, Corp Core, approved the rates of President Donald Trump in China, Canada and Mexico. The image shows a core steel recycling plant in Seattle. (Getty’s pictures)

“”Canada has been very abusive of the United States for many years. They don’t allow our banks, “Trump said.” And you know that Canada does not allow the banks to enter, if you think about it. This is quite incredible. If we have a US bank, they do not allow them to enter. “

“Canada has been very hard for energy oil. They do not allow our agricultural products, essentially. They do not allow many things.

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Former President Joe Biden also imposed tariffs during his administration, including steel and aluminum sent since Mexico in the US. But done elsewhere.

Andrea Margolis of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.