Dominic Leblanc, the Canadian Cabinet Minister who leads US trade conversations, will travel to Washington to meet with Howard Lutnick, secretary of the trade, a few days after Canada promised to remove most of his retaliation rates on US goods. “I hope, I hope, for a deal that will put us in a better position than we are now,” Leblanc said Monday in a French language interview about the public broadcaster of Canada. Leblanc said the two parties discussed ‘circumstances very interesting to the US government’ without providing further details. But in return, Canada will have to see improvements in its trade situation with the US, he added. The minister will fly to Washington on Monday night and the meeting will take place in the coming days, his office said. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Friday that Canada will remove its counter-rates on a long list of US goods that comply with the existing North American trade transaction. The retaliation has been in place since March, imposed by the then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Lutnick pushed the Canadian government to remove the counter-rates before further progress could be made with trade conversations, Bloomberg News reported. Carney did not remove all the retaliation of Canada. Canada will still have 25% import tax on US steel and aluminum products, as well as some rates on US cars and trucks. President Donald Trump has imposed rates on all these sectors. Leblanc believes that the retaliation of some of Canada’s retaliation will help open a path for a broader agreement on trade with the Trump administration, he told Bloomberg Television on Friday. This includes lying down the basis for a possible renegotiation of the United States Mexico Canada agreement, which is due to a joint review next year. However, Canada has so far received no indication that Trump is ready to lower its rates on foreign -manufactured steel and aluminum, which is currently at 50%, Leblanc said. With the help of Mathieu Dion. © 2025 Bloomberg MP This article was generated from an automatic news agency feed without edits to text.
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