The president of the United States, Donald Trump, went to his social media platform just after midnight on Thursday to say that he is not satisfied that Canada announces that he will recognize a Palestinian state in September if the governing body of the West Bank accepts to have certain commitments.
“Guau! Canada has just announced that it is supporting the status for Palestine,” Trump published in Truth Social. “That will make it very difficult for us to make a commercial agreement with them. Oh, Canada!”
Prime Minister Mark Carney confirmed Wednesday on Wednesday that trade negotiations have not been completed only two days before the deadline.
“It is possible that [negotiations] He can’t conclude for August 1, “said Carney at a press conference on Wednesday.
“But we’ll see with the teams there. We are working hard.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney says that the Canadian delegation that negotiates with the United States in a commercial agreement is back in Washington before the deadline of August 1 imposed by the president of the United States, Donald Trump, but gave his clearest indication that Canada might not get an agreement in time.
Trump established a term of August 1 for Canada to reach a trade agreement and has threatened to impose a 35 percent rate in goods that do not comply with the Canadá-Umexico (Cusma) agreement.
That rate would apply to Canadian exports that are currently argued to 25 percent, under Trump’s emergency powers, citing what he says is a threat of national security for fentanyl traffic.
“The president has been very clear … that there are certain sectors that are strategic, in his opinion, to the economy of the United States: aluminum steel, cars, pharmaceutical products, semiconductors and wood,” said Carney.
The prime minister previously hinted that the Canadian government is not in a hurry to end an agreement for Friday, saying that last week is that its goal is “Do not get to a treatment that costs”
On Monday, Carney said in Pei that trade negotiations with the United States are in a “Intense phase”
Tariffs ordered in some copper products
On Wednesday, Trump announced that the United States would fall on a 50 percent rate In copper products such as pipes and wiring, starting Friday.
The White House said it would apply only to semi-broken copper products and other products that largely use copper when they are manufactured.
Trump suggested last Friday that United States I might not reach an agreement with Canada and that more rates could be reserved for the country.
“I think Canada could be one in which there is only one rate, not really a negotiation,” Trump told journalists.
The main commercial negotiators of Canada, Kirsten Hillman, Canada Ambassador to the United States, and Dominic Leblanc, Minister Responsible for the United Canadian trade, have also minimized The probability that the two countries reach an agreement before August 1.
“It is important for us to recognize that there is a time when the agreement is the right treatment, and it is important that we are in a position to continue negotiating until we reach that point,” Hillman said last week.
