Prime Minister Mark Carney issued a statement just after midnight on Friday after the president of the United States, Donald Trump, signed an executive order to increase a rate of Canadian goods to 35 percent.
“While the Canadian government is disappointed by this action, we remain committed to [the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement]which is the second largest free trade agreement in the world by negotiation volume, “said the statement.
“The American application of Cusma means that the United States’s average rate rate on Canadian goods remains one of the lowest for all its commercial partners. Other sectors of our economy, including wood, steel, aluminum and cars, are very affected by the tariffs and tariffs of the United States.”
He says that the Canadian government will act to protect Canadian jobs, invest in industrial competitiveness, buy Canadian and diversify export markets.
Although the large majority of Canada’s exports can still cross the border rate without tariffs, Trump’s executive order increases the rate of rates, which had been established by 25 percent since March, to 35 percent from Friday.
Speaking from the White House on Thursday, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, said that Canada’s plan to recognize Palestinian status in September would not stop the current trade negotiations, with its time deadline on August 1.
The Order cites “Canada’s lack of cooperation to stop the avalanche of Fentanil and other illicit drugs on our northern border” and the fact that Canada has retaliates against the United States for the president’s actions.
Border security improvements
The Carney’s statement also described all the work that Canada has been doing to take energetic measures against fentanil and increase border security.
“Canada represents only one percent of US fentanyl imports. UU. And has been working intensely to further reduce these volumes,” he said.
“The Canada government is making historical investments in border security to arrest drug traffickers, knock down transnational gangs and end migrants smuggling.”
This week, Field check through is asking: What challenges do you face while trying to buy Canadian? LList your comment here And we can read it or call it for Sunday’s show.
Carney says they have hired thousands of new security officers of the Border Law and Security, implemented air surveillance and increased Canada’s intelligence and security operations.
Speaking to the journalists of the White House, Trump asked if Carney’s announcement that Canada plans to recognize that a Palestinian state was a decisive factor in trade.
“I didn’t like what they said, but you know, that’s his opinion,” Trump said. “It is not a decisive factor. But today we have not talked to Canada. It’s called and we’ll see.”
Ongoing negotiations
Trump told NBC News on Thursday night that he was open to more discussions with Canada, adding that he can even talk to Carney later at night.
The Carney Office did not confirm that a White House call was made and told CBC News that it is not confirming any detail about the ongoing negotiations.
In a separate executive order on Thursday, Trump hit dozens of countries worldwide with new rates of rates in general that range from 15 to 41 percent.
After talking with Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum, Trump gave Mexico an extension of 90 days of her current tariff regime, despite having previously threatened to increase the effective rate on Friday.
The Canada’s commercial negotiation team is in Washington, but the officials were squeezed lips on Thursday who they were gathering, if someone.
The US liquor sector. UU. It is exerting economic and political pressure on the Trump administration as the deadline for the commercial agreement of Canada-United States is approaching. They expect the administration to offer sizes limited to their industry or rethink tariffs completely.
Tariffs remain ‘unjustified’, says Pailievre
The conservative leader Pierre Poilievre went to social networks on Thursday night, calling “unjustified” tariffs and saying that his party continues to have the hope of an agreement to end all tariffs.
“That means zero tariffs on our steel, aluminum, soft wood, cars, energy, agriculture and everything else,” he wrote on the social media platform X.
“That is the agreement that Canada had before and the prime minister should accept no less than that.”
Conservatives continue to have the hope of an agreement to finish all American tariffs in Canada. That means zero tariffs in our steel, aluminum, soft wood, cars, energy, agriculture and everything else. That is the agreement that Canada had before and the prime minister should accept no less than …
Previously, Ontario Prime Minister, Doug Ford, described the increase in the rate on and said OTTAWA should retaliate with 50 percent tariffs on the steel and aluminum of the United States.
“Canada should not settle for anything less than the right treatment,” Ford said in X. “Now it is not time to turn around. We need to defend ourselves.”
UNION wants to see the action
The National Unifor President, Lana Payne, said she agrees with Ford.
“This is the struggle of our lives,” said Payne, whose union represents about 40,000 auto parts and workers of the Assembly in Canada.
“And we need to use all our leverage to fight for Canadian workers and their jobs. The bets are high but we can do this in Canada!”
I agree with @fordnation
This is the struggle of our lives.
And we need to use all our leverage to fight for Canadian workers and their jobs.
The bets are high, but we can do this Canada!
🇨🇦💪 https://t.co/58bol2JMJ0
For more than a week, Carney and other Canadian officials have been minimizing the probability of obtaining an agreement before the deadline. They have also questioned the urgency, given the exemption that allows approximately 90 percent of Canadian exports to enter the US rate.
David Paterson, representative of Ontario in Washington, told CBC Power and politics The guest host David Common that Canadians should not exaggerately react to the lack of an agreement at this time.
The negotiations continue in Washington while the president of the United States, Donald Trump, threatens the most pronounced rates, saying that Canada has not been easy to negotiate before the exchange deadline. David Paterson, representative of Ontario in Washington, shares with Power & Politics the latest negotiations, and what the highest reference rates could mean for Canadian industries.
“The sun will shine in the morning and we will continue,” Paterson said on Thursday from his office at the Canada Embassy in Washington.
“We really support the prime minister’s approach. When the right time for that agreement to join, it will.”
Comments from US officials
The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, suggested early on Thursday that threatened tariff increases would be activated unless Trump reached last minute agreements with commercial partners.
“Those countries that do not have an agreement or have a letter, will listen to this administration before the deadline of midnight tonight,” Leavitt told reporters in an informative session.
Trump’s Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, criticized Canada for being one of the only countries to retaliate against Trump’s tariffs.
“I just don’t see that the president leaves the gas,” Lutnick said in an interview at Fox Business Network.
Trump issued similar ultimatums with the same deadline of August 1 to 17 important commercial partners worldwide, including the European Union, Japan and Taiwan. Each contained tariff threats in the range of 30 percent.
Last week, Trump announced agreements with the EU and Japan with general tariffs of 15 percent, as well as vague commitments for hundreds of billions of dollars of investment in the United States.
A pending legal challenge
Separately, Trump has imposed a 50 percent rate on steel and aluminum imports around the world. Canada is the main supplier of both products to the US.
For the 35 percent rate that is specifically addressed to Canada, Trump used a law that allows the president of the United States to take emergency economic measures to “deal with any unusual and extraordinary threat” for national security.
He cited the alleged Fentanyl flow on the northern border of the country as that threat.
That rate faces a legal challenge that has now reached a Federal Appeals Court, which takes it further in the United States judicial system than any other demand demand.
