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Now they would be forced to buy oil from geopolitical rivals like Venezuela if they disrupted a trade with Canada, Ottawa’s Foreign Minister warned.
Mélanie Joly told the Financial Times that the threat to the US president to impose a 25 percent of Canadian imports would hit “real people” if relations between the two countries have dropped to a trade war.
“We deliver oil with a discount that is ultimately refined in Texas. If they are not me, it is Venezuela, “Joly said, referring to heavy oil assessments produced in Venezuela and Canada on which many US refineries depend.
“There is no other option on the table, and this administration does not want to work with Venezuel,” Joly said.
US President Donald Trump imposed Caracas in the first term in the White House.
Joly was in the American capital at the last moment of Canada to prevent the first full trade war of Trump’s new administration, and the President again threatened to apply that he would apply 25 percent tariff in Canada and Mexico starting on February 1.
The president said he was considering turning off the import of oil from the tariff – reflecting addiction now – a neighbor for huge energy supplies.
Despite breeding oil production from slate in countries such as Texas, Canada accounts for approximately one of every five barrels of oil in the USA -about 60 percent of its imported raw oil.
Many US refineries depend on the type of heavy oil produced in Canada or Venezuela – not the easier classes produced by the US fertile slate industry.
Joly, who traveled to Washington to meet US Secretary of State Marc Rubio and other senior American officials, said she also warned the legislators at Capitol Hill that trade tensions would hit “real people”, especially in Republican countries.
“We don’t want it,” Joly said. “We want us to be in a position to win and we think we can offer it.”
Ottawa and Mexico City were both drawn List of retail tariffs In order to betray themselves against the USA case Trump pulls the trigger on the tariff against them, the people who knew about the matter had previously told FT.
Canadian Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, vowed “Tit-for-Tat” Bill on American goods like steel and orange juice if Trump follows its threats.
Trump has launched repeated ships against Canada in recent weeks, describing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a “governor” and claiming that the country should become the US in the 510s.
Trump said in a speech earlier this month that the American annexation of Canada “would really be something” and that he could use an “economic force” for it.
Joly said the idea did not appear at any of her meetings with US officials. “Absolutely no,” she answered, when asked.
“We can be really good friends, best friends, but we will never be a state or a colony, the period,” she said.
Canada and Mexico also tried to show Trump to provide their extensive borders with the US in response to his claims that drugs and migrants illegally move to his country.
“On the border, I think we got a good tow,” Joly said, adding that he would meet with Trump’s border emperor Tom Homan.
Canada has committed to spending $ 1 billion on border security, and recently distributed newly leased Black Hawk Patrol helicopters, additional dogs and 60 drones on the border part in response to Trump’s demands – as well as concern about weapons and unproven migrants coming from the United States -a who come from USA.
Joly said, “We wanted to strengthen the border on our side as well, because we are concerned about the flow of illegal weapons coming from the USA -the potential flow of the illegal migrants coming from the US.”
Trump threatened to deport millions of people without a permanent legal status from the US, which prompted concern that some migrants would travel to Canada to seek refuge.
Joly said that the US president apparently connected his early threat of 25 percent of border safety tariffs, the US and Canada would review their wider trade relationship, including North American trade agreement that Trump signed during the last administration, as part of his last administration a separate procedure.
