Canadian ambassador to U.S. expects Trump will lift steel, aluminum tariffs in ‘next few weeks’
Adrian Morrow, The Globe and Mail February 21, 2019Ottawa’s ambassador to the United States says he is confident the Trump administration will lift tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum in “the next few weeks.”Ambassador David MacNaughton told a business forum in Washington on Thursday that he has been in talks with U.S. Trade Representative Robert […]
Trump abandons threat of auto tariffs on Canada, saying it was just a ‘negotiating point’
DANIEL DALE, Toronto Star Oct. 2, 2018 WASHINGTON—U.S. President Donald Trump says he is now free to acknowledge that he had only threatened to impose tariffs on Canadian-made cars “as a negotiating point” in NAFTA talks. “I’m not using tariffs. I used tariffs to get the deal, because if they weren’t willing to make a […]