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Bombardier, the Canadian aviation company, has announced that it’s looking to fill 500 jobs in the US, days after President Trump threatened to block its products from the American market.

Getting into it: In a statement to Al Jazeera, the company said, “We are actively recruiting for 500 open positions in America. They comprise net new positions, as well as planned retirement replacements and backfill for usual turnover in the 3500+ employment base.” Some of the jobs will be at a new service center in Fort Wayne, Indiana, opening in mid-November.

The statement came after Trump targeted the company on Truth Social Monday. “If they want our Market, they must build here, and stop treating America like a ‘piggybank,'” he wrote, warning he’d cut the company off from the US entirely if it didn’t shift production to American soil. By Wednesday, the administration was working up options to act on the threat, according to a White House official.

Bombardier has spent the days since laying out its American footprint. It employs about 3,500 people in over 20 states. It builds wings in Texas and flight control components in California, runs service centers in five states, and pays 2,800 American suppliers roughly $2.5 billion every year. The US accounts for roughly half its annual sales, which is why the threat has executives worried.

Republicans in Kansas, where Bombardier has its US headquarters and employs about 1,500 people, broke with Trump over the threat. Sen. Roger Marshall, up for re-election in November, said he had raised the issue directly with the White House. Sen. Jerry Moran said he contacted the administration “to make certain the president is aware of the significant contributions of Bombardier to Kansas,” adding that he would keep working to make sure the company’s operations stay and grow in the state.

For now, nothing has changed except the company’s stock price (which is down about 12% this month). Bombardier aircraft can still be sold and delivered to US customers, and Tuesday’s new US trade actions against Canada left aerospace out entirely. Planes and aircraft parts also still cross the border duty-free under a decades-old agreement Trump signed back in 2017.

This all comes as top Canadian officials have openly said that Canada needs to move off its economic dependence on the US. In a statement earlier this week, Prime Minister Mark Carney said, “In too many areas, they wanted dependency, not a true economic partnership.” He added, “We have everything we need to pivot and prosper. That pivot will come at a cost. There’s always a cost to action, but it doesn’t come close to the cost of standing still.”