Carney sends envoys to DC to 'very constructive' Trump call

Mark Carney said Canada and the US are negotiating to resolve issues in the tariff hits after a ‘very constructive’ discussion with President Donald Trump on Monday night. The Canadian Prime Minister said more meetings are taking place in Washington where officials, including Michael Sabia, Canada’s leading official, are involved. “We expect agreements in some of the strategic sectors,” Carney told reporters in Toronto on Wednesday, referring to industries targeted by US rates such as cars, steel and aluminum. But he also warned that an agreement could not happen quickly. “Don’t expect immediate white smoke on one of these strategic sectors, but this is the type of conversation we have.” Carney’s Monday call with Trump was not known before, as his office nor the White House then issued a lecture. Trump increased a few rates on Canada to 35% on August 1, but he held an exception for a wide range of products traded under the US Mexico Canada agreement. Carney defended his country’s competitive position and argued that the release of Canada gives a mixed rates of about 5.5%, ‘the lowest average rate of any country in the world’. Many of Trump’s rates are under a legal cloud after an American court declared them illegal on August 29. But they are still in place and the administration is trying to support the US Supreme Court to support its tariff forces. Carney also said the government is looking for ways to solve trade friction with Canada’s second largest trading partner, China, who imposed the rates on food items such as canola and pork after Canada placed rates on Chinese electric vehicles. With the help of Mario Baker Ramirez. © 2025 Bloomberg MP This article was generated from an automatic news agency feed without edits to text.