WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will possible discuss “over the following variety of days” after the US imposed a 35 per cent tariff on items not coated by the US-Mexico-Canada commerce settlement, a Canadian official stated on Sunday (Aug 3).
Dominic LeBlanc, the federal cupboard minister in command of US-Canada commerce, informed CBS Information’ “Face the Nation” that he believes there’s an possibility of hanging a deal that can carry down tariffs.
“We’re inspired by the conversations with Secretary Lutnick and Ambassador Greer, however we’re not but the place we have to go to get the deal that is in the perfect curiosity of the 2 economies,” LeBlanc stated, referring to US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and US Commerce Consultant Jamieson Greer.
The commerce minister stated he anticipated Carney and Trump to talk “over the following variety of days.”
“We predict there’s an possibility of hanging a deal that can carry down a few of these tariffs present larger certainty to funding,” LeBlanc stated.
Washington linked Friday’s tariff announcement partially to what it stated was Canada’s failure to cease fentanyl smuggling. It was the most recent blow in a months-long tariff struggle, which Trump initiated shortly after returning to energy this yr.
Carney says Canada accounts for simply 1% of US fentanyl imports and has been working intensively to additional cut back the volumes.
