Canada is working to prevent the steep duties that US President Donald Trump could be imposed on February 1.
Foreign Minister Melanie Jolly in Canada meets Washington DC’s Counter Marco Rubio in the United States.
Jolly plans to hold a consultation with the US Secretary of State in the US capital on Wednesday afternoon.
Her visit comes when U.S. Donald Trump’s administration threatens 25 % of Canadian products on Saturday as early as Saturday.
“Our purpose is to confirm that we will prevent (duties), and we believe we can do so,” Jolly told Ottawa this week. “We will continue to be involved with various American counter parts.”
The Canadian government is facing pressure from opposition members and business leaders, and has begun to do as much as possible to stop the potentially disabled tariffs.
The United States and Canada are major trade partners. According to the Canadian government, the government exchanged $ 2.7 billion ($ 3.6 billion) every day in 2023, over the shared borders.
Experts say both economies are affected by US tariffs and Retal of Canada.
However, Trump has threatened Canada and other countries with sudden tariffs since won the US presidential election in November.
Trump will be enforced on the first day of his inauguration on January 20 if the tariff on Canada did not do more to stop the border and stop the irregular immigration and drug trafficking. I was warning.
He later pushed his plan back on February 1st.
“We are looking for respect from other countries,” Trump spoke last week in a video speech to the World Economic Forum Summit in Davos, Switzerland last week. “We have a tremendous deficit with Canada. It’s no longer, we can’t do it.”
KAROLINE LEAVITT, a white house spokesman, stated this week that the date of February 1 in Canada is still standing.
“The president promises to implement tariffs effectively, as he did in his first term,” she told the reporters on Tuesday.
The Canada has not yet provided specific details on retaliation measures to be established when the Trump administration imposes tariffs on Canadian products.
No one wants to see our tariffs on Canadian products. However, as needed, a powerful national response is required.
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Earlier this month, Radio Canada, a public broadcasting station, reported that Prime Minister, Prime Minister of Prime Minister, has prepared a plan to impose tariffs on US products worth $ 25.5 billion ($ 37 billion).
Radio Canada said that Ota was ready to enact strict measures than to cover up to $ 760 billion ($ 110 billion).
“Everything will be on the table,” said a recent interview with CNN, a former Kevec, who is sitting in a newly formed council on US -related US -related Council.
“I think you may hear what Canadian officials will talk about what you intend to do until you actually do it. That is a way to manage this situation.”
Charest also emphasized the importance of Canadian energy exports to the United States.
According to a research group of the US Energy Information Bureau, this country is the largest foreign energy salmon in the United States.
In the same year, Canada sent about 97 % of crude oil exports south of the border. Most of these supplies came from a country with abundant petroleum in Alberta.
“Nobody says we are going to cut it out,” Shalest said. “But there are other options about how to deal with energy so that we can claim. We don’t want to do it, but if we have to do ourselves. , We do.