Top American representatives of the Canadian delegation said on Thursday that there were no ways for Canada or any other country in the cross -haired President Trump can avoid a new circle of deleted tariffs on April 2. According to two people with direct knowledge of their conversation.
All negotiations to remove some tariffs or even conclude a comprehensive trade agreement would arrive after that date, US officials told their Canadian colleagues at a meeting in Washington, DC Mr. Trump, Executive Command, ordered the depth testing of trade between the United States and several partners, including the stating of the start. ” Tariff “, to the introduction of parents on the goods of 2, to insert a rotary 2 of the 2, to the introduction of a 2 -time rotary, cited on goods, and works on birth.
The United States represented at a meeting of the Howard Lutnick and American trade representative Jamieson Greer at a meeting. Canada was represented by the Minister of Finance Dominic Leblanc, the Minister of Industry François-Philippe Champagne, Prime Minister Ontario Doug Ford and Canadian ambassador to the United States, Kirsten Hillman.
Canadian officials left the meeting, which lasted more than an hour, with a clearer – but not necessarily more optimistic – a sense of what they ahead, according to them with two with direct knowledge of what happened, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to get to know the press about it.
While Trump officials clearly emphasized their promise on reciprocal tariffs, Mr. Trump showed a repeated tendency to promise to press the tariffs just to decide at the last minute to give up or approved a return.
The meeting was an effort to inject a quieter approach to the relationship between the two countries, even while Mr. Trump continued to level threats against the sovereignty of Canada on Thursday.
Canadian officials said that Mr. Lutnick and Mr. Greer conveyed to them that Trump’s administration is very dedicated to tariffs as a trade policy and the use of tariff to redefine the relations of the United States to the world. On April 2, they were told, they will be the main step in establishing this new doctrine.
Last month, Mr. Trump instructed his advisers to come up with new tariff levels that take into account a number of trade obstacles and other economic approaches accepted by US trade partners. This includes not only the tariffs that other countries charge on US products, but also the subsidies that give their industries, courses and other measures that the President considers unjust.
Mr. Trump said that measures should be taken to equalize US “unjust” relations and prevent other countries from using the United States in the store. But he made it clear that his ultimate goal was to force the company to return his production to the United States.
Canadian officials remained with the impression that the United States existed a willingness to eliminate the negative reaction that the financial markets had already had to on the president’s tariff in Canada, Mexico and China.
The US side explained that a little Canada or any other state could make it prevent the upcoming 2 April 2. Instead, the administration planned to fill the money forward, and then, after that, consider individual exemptions, changes or wider negotiation of tariffs with certain countries, depending on the market reactions.
Following the threats of expansive tariffs, the United States is now applying 25 percent of the Canadian steel and aluminum, as well as 25 percent on goods that do not in accordance with the existing trade agreement between the two nations. .
Economists believe that the tariffs have been imposed so far, the Canadian retaliation of American imports, and the entire atmosphere of volatility and uncertainty, could transfer Canada to the recession this year.
The Trump administration official said that at a meeting on Thursday, Mr. Lutnick and Mr. Greer emphasized the dedication of Trump’s administration to deal with FER trade and that both countries have recognized the strength and history of their relationship.
Mr. Lutnick met with numerous foreign officials to ensure that Mr. Trump’s message was heard and acted accordingly, the US official said. Trump’s administration aimed at helping US companies progress in the global market, building balanced relations and removing trade deficits and foreign trade limitations, the official added.
Canadian officials are expected to return to Washington next week to talk to Mr. Greer, and have started focusing on more detail about the resolution of two key American worries set on Thursday Metsing: Digital Services Tax applied by Canada, and a question of quotas and supplements on dairy products.
Canada imposes a 3 percent tax on internet business revenues, including social media companies, internet markets and online advertising-industry in which US companies dominate. Tax is a key complaint in a commercial relationship in the US-Chanada from the Biden Administration.
Dairy, Canada and the United States apply quotas and other measures that limit imports to each other after a certain import threshold has been achieved. Mr. Trump aimed at this system, which he agreed in 2018 as part of the North-American North American Command Command at his heirs trade agreement, the US-Mxico-Canada agreement.
On Thursday, officials at a meeting also said there was a wider feeling that the tone of the conversation could improve with the departure of the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeauu, replaced by Mark Carney on Friday. Mr. Trump and Mr. Trudeau have overflowed with personal chemistry from Mr. Trump’s first term.
“The temperature fell,” Mr. Ford told the newspaper as he left the meeting on Thursday.
“We leave Washington, I think he is better equipped to ensure that we can defend Canadian interests,” added Mr. Champagne, an industry minister.
Ana Swanson Contribution to Washington reporting.
