US trade secretary Howard Lunick said President Donald Trump would “probably” announce an agreement to reduce prices in Canada and Mexico on Wednesday.
“The Canadians and Mexicans were on the phone with me all day, trying to show that they will do better” to reduce the fentanyl flow in the United States, “said Lodnick in an interview with Fox Business Network.
But the Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly said in the BBC night that her office had not been contacted about the plan.
Canada and Mexico have announced to import charges in the United States after the 25% Washington prices on its two neighbors came into force on Tuesday.
Lutnick clearly indicated that he expected the American prices to be lowered rather than take a break.
“I think that (Trump) will understand:” You do more, and I will meet you in the middle. “And we will probably announce this tomorrow.”
US officials “can say a lot” but “the only one who really makes a decision is President Trump,” said Joly.
Lutnick received an appeal with Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford, according to sources that declared to the Globe and Mail that he had given a warning concerning Canadian reprisals and what had been considered personal attacks against Trump.
Earlier Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau criticized Trump’s radical prices on his country, calling him “a very stupid thing to do” and promised to lead an “incessant fight” to protect his economy.
Trudeau has announced reprisals on American exports and warned that a trade war would be expensive for the two countries.
But Trump pushed even further in an article on his social platform of truth, saying: “Please explain to Governor Trudeau, Canada, only when he puts a reprisals in the United States, our reciprocal rate will immediately increase by a similar amount!”
Trudeau accused the American president of planning “a total collapse of the Canadian economy because it will facilitate annexing us”.
“This will never happen. We will never be the 51st state,” he told journalists.
Washington also intensified his trade war with Beijing on Tuesday as a new 10% levy on Chinese imports that came into force – which adds to the existing samples of Trump’s first mandate and those announced last month.
“China will fight in the bitter end of any trade war,” said a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry of Affairs after their country has announced Tit-For-Tat prices on agricultural imports in the United States.
