The president of the United States, Donald Trumprefused to resume trade negotiations with Canadaa week after breaking them due to a dispute over a tariff advertising on Canadian television.
“What they did was wrong,” he declared. Trumpthis Friday, to journalists aboard the presidential plane Air Force One. So “no”, the discussions will not resume, he responded to a journalist, although, according to Trump, the canadian prime minister “he apologized.”
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Donald Trump accused Canada of “foul play” after the province of Ontario issued a controversial advertisement with statements from the former president Ronald Reagan on tariffswhich according to Trump, were distorted. Ontario subsequently stopped airing the advertisement.
The American president reacted strongly to the Canadian advertising campaign against the protectionism: interrupted bilateral trade negotiations and imposed a additional 10% increase in tariffs on Canadian products.
However, the Republican reiterated that He had a “good relationship” with Mark Carney and that they had had a “good conversation” on the sidelines of the APEC summit in South Korea.
A few days earlier, during another summit in Malaysia, Carney reiterated that Canada I was “ready” to resume trade negotiations con Washington.
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The breakdown of trade negotiations constitutes a sudden turn in a relationship between two historical alliesshaken by Donald Trump’s return to power in January.
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Canada is the second largest trading partner of the United States. and a major supplier of steel and aluminum for American companies.
The vast majority of Cross-border exchanges remain tariff-freethanks to the North American free trade agreement (T-MEC), but the global sectoral surcharges imposed by the Republican have hit Ottawa hard.
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