Toronto – Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney He said Wednesday that he is ready to meet with the president of the United States, Donald Trump, if he respects Canadian sovereignty and is open to talk about a common approach to trade.
Trump has declared a commercial war in his northern neighbor and continues to ask Canada to become the state 51, a position that has enraged Canadians. Trump has threatened the economic coercion in his threats of annexation and suggested that on Tuesday the border is a fictitious line.
“I am ready to sit with President Trump at the appropriate time under a position in which there is respect for Canadian sovereignty and we are working for a common approach, a much more complete approach to commerce,” said Carney.
Carney, who will swear on Friday with her new cabinet, spoke with journalists at a steel factory in Hamilton, Ontario, after Trump officially increased tariffs on all imports of steel and aluminum 25%. Canada is the largest foreign steel and aluminum supplier to the United States
Carney said that workers in both countries will be better when “the largest economic and security association in the world is renewed, relaunched. That is possible.”
He added that he respects Trump’s concerns for US workers and fentanyl.
“Today is a difficult day for Canada and the industry due to these unjustified rates that have been put,” said Carney.
Canada responded with its own countermeasures. Plan to impose retaliation rates of 29.8 billion Canadian dollars ($ 20.7 billion) from Thursday in response to US taxes on metals. The new Canada rates would be on steel and aluminum products, as well as American products, including computers, sports equipment and water heaters worth $ 14.2 billion ($ 9.9 billion).
“We do not want to do this because we believe in open borders and free and fair trade, but we are doing this in response,” said Carney.
The new Canada tariffs are added to their 25% accounting tariffs at CA $ 30 billion ($ 20.8 billion) of imports from the USA. UU. Which were implemented on March 4 in response to other Trump import taxes that partially delayed one month.
Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly said Wednesday that this is the second round of unjustified rates against Canada.
“The excuse for the first round were exaggerated claims on our border. We address all the concerns raised by the United States, “said Joly.
“The last excuse is national security despite the fact that the steel and aluminum of Canada add to the security of the United States. Meanwhile, there is a threat of more and wider rates on April 2 still progressing. ”
Joly said the excuses for those rates change every day.
“The only constant in this unjustifiable commercial war seems to be the talk of President Trump to annex our country through economic coercion. Yesterday he called on our border a fictitious line and repeated his disrespectful rhetoric of the state 51, ”said Joly.
The president of the United States has given a variety of explanations for his antagonism in Canada. He has said that his 25% separate tariffs in all imports of Canada, some of which have been suspended for a month, are about the smuggling of fentanyl and objections to Canada that put high taxes on dairy imports that penalize US farmers. He also continued calling Canada To be part of the United States.
“Lord. Carney is a serious person, a serious man, and will get involved only if there are serious conversations,” said Joly.
