Canada Canada talked over Trump

This is another ball curve in Canada’s trading war – the new US mission Donald Trump, which threatens an unexpected 35% tariff for Canadian goods from next month.

This happened when both countries participate in intensive trade conversations designed to create a new transaction in the coming days, and the fact that the last tariff threat to these negotiations is unclear.

But the new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is beginning to face the questions whether he is able to withstand Trump and provide a fair deal for Canada he promises.

Carney won the general election in April, promising to keep its “elbows” in front of the US threats, based on a popular hockey metaphor used to describe the persistent and confrontational game style.

But the latest concessions to Canada Trump appears to have given a small result today.

The latter happened at the end of June, when Canada refused the tax on digital services (DST), it planned to impose large technology companies after Trump threatened to stop the politics negotiations.

The White House stated that Canada had “undergone” his requirements, and this step caused a discussion in Canada.

Canadian Commentator Robin Urbek wrote: “Perhaps the elbows of Prime Minister Mark Karni are tired.”

She said the government’s elbows up and down to the negotiations can be described as “chicken dance”.

Meanwhile, Blaine Hagart, Professor of Political Science at Brock University, claimed in the recent opinion in the Globus and Mail, which: “Nothing about the strategy of the United States Carney, in particular the persecution of” comprehensive “trade and security agreement”.

Going to the DST reached “less than nothing,” he said.

However, many are ready to give Carney more time, and polls believe its government supports strong support.

Roland Paris, a former adviser to the Otta-Zash ties, told the BBC that it was too early to say whether Canada lost everything prematurely.

“A lot will depend on the final agreement,” he said.

But Mr. Paris said that it was clear that Trump was moving a fierce deal.

“If, after all, Carney seems to have capitulated Trump and we will remain a bad deal, he will pay the political price of the house,” he said.

Before going to the DST, Canada sought to reassure the president, promising earlier this year with $ 1.3 billion to increase security on the overall border and appoint a “fentanyl tsar” over Trump’s statements that the drug was pouring across the border.

However, on Thursday, in a letter announced the last tariff, Trump again warned Canada about drugs.

Karni also did not respond further to the counteraction when the president doubled the tariffs for steel and aluminum last month.

The Prime Minister responded to a new threat of tariffs by 35% by August 1, saying: “During the modern trade negotiations with the United States, the Canadian government strongly defended our workers and enterprises.”

He said Canada would continue the negotiations and the agreement is currently reinterpreted next month. (Both countries previously established July 21)

Good news for Canada is that the new tariff rate will not apply, to the goods under the US-Mexico-Konad Free Trade Agreement, which covers the vast majority of cross-border trade.

President Trump has also sent similar notes to more than 20 countries as part of his plan to remedy new agreements with America’s trading partners.

Inside the country, the Canadians in political lanes remain the only ones against Trump tariffs.

Conservative leader Pierre Puulure said that on Thursday, his party is ready to do everything that can be “provided with the best proposal for Canada”, while British Colombian Prime Minister David Abby said Trump’s letter “another reminder of why Canadians should come together.”

And experts point out that for constant negotiations may be more than meets the eye.

Despite the smaller economy than in the US, it still has some lever, claimed that Feng Hampson, Professor of International Affairs at Carlton University and expert on international negotiations.

“It is important to remember that US consumers pay tariffs, not we,” he said.

Many US manufacturers also expect Canadian products such as steel and aluminum, which are currently undergoing 50%.

“You cannot judge the results of the negotiations to the last step or the concession that was made,” said Professor Hampson. “You can only judge it by its result.”

Experts also indicate Karni’s efforts to reduce dependence on the United States – including by signing a transaction with the European Union – and rapid tracking of major projects and removing internal trade barriers.

Canadian Industry Minister Melanie Jolie Pusted on Friday at Trump’s last threat, the government does not negotiate in public. “

And she denied that Canada was not behind Trump.

“We are dealing with a very unpredictable US administration,” she said, and “we’re not the only ones.”