Carney, Trump To Meet In Washington As Trade Talks Continue - Beritaja

Minister Mark Carney is group to meet pinch U.S. President Donald Trump successful Washington connected Tuesday arsenic waste and acquisition negotiations continue.

Carney will recreation to the United States superior metropolis Monday up of the meeting. It will beryllium his 2nd sojourn to the White House since he became premier minister.

The Prime Minister’s Office said successful a news merchandise that Carney’s sojourn will attraction connected shared priorities successful a caller economical and information narration betwixt Canada and the United States.

Ottawa has been trying to find an off-ramp from Trump’s sectoral tariffs, which are hammering Canada’s steel, aluminum and automobile industries.

The Trump management is besides expanding duties connected lumber later this month.

Trump pushed tariffs connected Canadian equipment to 35 per cent successful August but those duties do not use to equipment compliant nether the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement connected trade, besides called CUSMA.

Canada and the U.S. separately launched consultations past period up of adjacent year’s CUSMA review.

Carney’s latest in-person gathering pinch Trump comes aft his cardinal curate connected Canada-U.S. waste and acquisition said he hopes to make advancement connected one-off, sector-specific tariff deals pinch the U.S. earlier that charismatic reappraisal begins.

Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc told parliamentary hearings successful Ottawa connected Thursday that “nobody has yet suggested” Ottawa should fold the sector-specific talks into the broader CUSMA review.

He told a Senate overseas affairs committee that Canada is still successful discussions connected dropping the sector-specific tariffs putting unit connected Canadian industries, and he does not spot “a dormant extremity successful those conversations.”

LeBlanc said “time will show america if my optimism is misplaced.”