Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he may skip a trade meeting with President Donald Trump and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador next week because of the coronavirus and threat of American tariffs
OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau is pointing to the threat of fresh U.S. tariffs and the coronavirus pandemic as reasons why he might skip a meeting in Washington next week with President Donald Trump and Mexico's Andrés Manuel López Obrador to mark the new continental trade deal.
“We’re obviously concerned about the proposed issue of tariffs on aluminum and steel that the Americans have floated recently. We’re also concerned about the health situation and the coronavirus reality that is still hitting all three of our countries.”to slow a rush in shipments, or face the reintroduction of a 10 percent tariff, multiple people familiar with the issue told POLITICO last week.
The agreement, however, to remove the levies stated the U.S. could reimpose them after consulting with Canada and “in the event that imports of aluminum or steel products surge meaningfully beyond historic volumes of trade over a period of time.”
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