Trump says Bombardier must build jets in US or face loss of market access

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that Canadian private aircraft maker Bombardier (BBDb.TO) would no longer be allowed to sell its jets in the United States unless it began manufacturing in the nation.STOP SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES! Their items aren’t good enough!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.“If they want our Market, they have to build here, and stop using America as a piggy bank,” he stated.

The post came as a trade battle between Washington and Ottawa escalated, part of the near-global tariff wall in Trump’s second term that has garnered concerns from numerous US trading partners.

Canada will impose a series of retaliatory tariffs on the US on Tuesday.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on how Trump would implement the action or what steps he would take to prevent deliveries of Bombardier jets, which have been cleared by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.

The planemaker’s jets also meet the United States-Mexico-Canada trade accord that Trump helped implement.

U.S. aerospace analyst Richard Aboulafia said he did not think any business jet buyers would cancel Bombardier contracts, and he did not see how Trump could block them from being sold. Aboulafia, managing director of AeroDynamic Advisory, an aircraft management consulting firm, said most Bombardier private planes are powered by U.S.-made engines from Honeywell aircraft (HONA.O) and GE Aerospace (GE.N).

Aerospace has generally escaped untouched from Trump’s trade battle, with the flow of parts and planes not yet affected by taxes. U.S. aerospace and military has a $109.2 billion trade surplus and exports are up 25% on an annual basis in 2025, according to U.S. trade group Aerospace Industries Association.

Aerospace is as intertwined as the U.S. auto industry, which depends on parts from its northern neighbor.

Bombardier, a rival of U.S. business jet maker Gulfstream Aerospace (GD.N) based in Montreal, with 3,500 American employees, a U.S. footprint of 2,800 suppliers and factories and service centers around the country. The company is also opening its sixth U.S. service center and builds wings for its flagship Global 8000 plane in Texas.

Bombardier stated in a statement Monday nite that it spends more than $2.5 billion annually with U.S. suppliers.The United States is “a place where we will continue to invest in for our people, our customers and the communities we operate in across the country,” the business said.

Bombardier also has a defense subsidiary with a Kansas plant that prepares Canadian-made planes for special-mission missions. Bombardier’s customers operate a fleet of 5,100 aircraft, about half of which are in the U.S. In January, Trump announced the U.S. was decertifying Bombardier Global Express business jets and threatening 50 percent import taxes on all aircraft made in Canada until the country’s regulator certified a number of planes produced by Gulfstream. Neither happened, but during the next month Canada certified a few of Gulfstream planes.

Bombardier said in July that its quarterly sales rose 6 per cent to $2.15 billion from the same three months a year ago, supported by robust demand for aftermarket services.