U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade czar says there will be tariffs in place on Mexico and Canada even though the countries are part of a continental trade pact.
Speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations today, United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer was asked about the state of negotiations with Ottawa around the Canada-U.S.-Mexico-Agreement on trade, known as CUSMA.
The Trump administration has begun official negotiations with Mexico but they haven’t started with Canada.
Greer says most nations have begrudgingly accepted some level of tariffs but Canada’s approach has been different.
Greer says Canada is in a “different spot” when it comes to accepting Trump’s tariffs and it’s “hard to see where that ends.”
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Greer says some areas of negotiations with Canada will be challenging — pointing to the automobile sector — but others will not be as hard.
The republicans had better options than Trump for POTUS, but here we are.
The only thing Trump cares about is manipulating the stock market for his benefit
Ben, you are spreading misinformation.
The US didn’t put tariffs on any CUSMA items and didn’t violate the trade deal.
The US placed tariffs on Canada, breaking the Canada-US trade agreement that Trump negotiated. T US did this first. Anything else said to the contrary is in my opinion just US/Russian disinformation.
Canada already violated CUSMA by putting retaliatory tariffs on CUSMA protected items.
Canada did that, not the USA.
Just love all the justifiers on here. All the excuses in the world to justify the acts of distraction from a p*dophile and a g*nocidal m*niac. Do you hear yourselves justifying his crime? Can you not see the damage and death he’s causing? This is all right? Bad enough media condones it all, but, supposedly sane, thinking people? Man anyone who agrees with or supports Trump is an evil, evil person.
@ Not that kind
Yup, he was convicted( by a New York Jury) of paying hush money to a porn star.
Guess he should have pardoned himself. You know, like ol’ Hunter Biden who gets a full pardon on gun and tax evasion by Daddy Joe.
To imply that Americans are “too stupid”, well, much like us in Canada, we really don’t have that many options for people of integrity to elect.
We do not negotiate with terrorist regimes!!!
Don’t sign anything with the country too stupid to elect a non-criminal and one that elects a convicted felon to lead them. smh.
@anonymous
Fellow Canadian here….and while I appreciate the patriotism, Canada has a standing military of 55 thousand…..uhh the US wouldn’t even break a sweat wiping the floor with us.
yeah, we’ll blow the states to hell yank
Pay the price or be invaded.. that easy.
There has always been Tariffs between US and Canada. Trump’s gotten greedy, sure, but it seems like it’s the new dog whistle.
The U.S. breached the CUSMA when it applied tariffs to Canada. There are surely mechanisms within CUSMA to contest the breach. What’s the point of signing anything with barbarians who don’t honour their agreements?
Really censorship? Wow. Thats pretty rank. The truth is the truth is the truth! WHY would we pay Trumps tariffs just to keep CUSMA alive? That is censorable???