In response to inquiries over his most recent correspondence with President Donald Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stated that trade negotiations with the US will restart “when it’s appropriate.When asked when he had last spoken to Trump, Carney said, “Who cares? It’s a particular detail. When it matters, I’ll talk to him once more.”
The prime minister’s comments follow the disruption of trade negotiations last month when Trump objected to an anti-tariff commercial that featured Ronald Reagan and was shown by the province of Ontario. Carney hinted that talks with the president may happen “probably in the next two weeks” when speaking on the fringes of the G20 summit in Johannesburg on Sunday.
Trump has not yet imposed the additional 10% duty on Canadian products that was promised due to the Ontario advertisement, despite tensions. Trump saw the ad, which used snippets of former President Ronald Reagan’s 1987 radio speech in which he said that tariffs would harm the US economy, as an assault on his policies. Tariffs, according to Trump, will increase American manufacturing and generate jobs.
Despite being a significant economic partner, Canada is now the only G7 country without a trade agreement with the US following Trump’s declaration of tariffs against a number of important partners.
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