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Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Friday that his country will drop some of its billions of dollars in retaliatory tariffs on US goods, though it will keep levies on autos, steel and aluminium. It comes a day after he and President Donald Trump spoke over the phone for the first time since the two countries missed a self-imposed deadline to reach a trade agreement.
Canada to drop some of its retaliatory tariffs on the US
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Friday that his country will drop some of its billions of dollars in retaliatory tariffs on US goods, though it will keep levies on cars, steel and aluminium.
It comes a day after he and President Donald Trump spoke over the phone for the first time since the two countries missed a self-imposed deadline to reach a trade agreement.
Canada had placed a 25% levy on about C$30bn (£16bn; $21.7bn) worth of US goods on an array of products, including orange juice and washing machines.
The tax hike was in retaliation to US tariffs on Canada, which as of August are valued at 35% on all goods not compliant with the countries' existing free trade deal.
Carney said Canada will now match the US by ending its tariffs on goods compliant with the US-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement (USMCA). He said that would "re-establish free trade for the vast majority" of goods that move between the two countries.
The decision will go into effect on 1 September, Carney said.
In a statement to the BBC's US news partner CBS, the White House said it welcomes Canada's move, adding that it is "long overdue" and that the US looks forward to continuing discussions with its northern neighbour about trade and national security.
Trump later told reporters on Friday that he and Carney will speak again over the phone soon.
Canada is one of many countries tariffed by the US as part of Trump's global trade strategy, but it is one of only two countries - along with China - that have placed retaliatory levies on American goods in response.
Polling shows the majority of Canadians support retaliatory tariffs on the US.
Carney, who was elected in an April general election, campaigned on an aggressive "elbows up" approach to negotiating with Trump, referencing a popular ice hockey term.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre criticised Carney for dropping the counter-tariffs, telling reporters that the prime minister's "elbows have mysteriously gone missing".
"It is yet another capitulation and climb down by Mark Carney," Poilievre said.
Asked by reporters about whether Canada was softening its approach, Carney said it has a better tariff deal with the US than many other countries because of the free trade carve-out.
That puts the actual tariff rate on Canadian goods at about 5.6%, much lower than the average of around 16% for other countries, he said.
"As we work to address outstanding trade issues with the US, it's important we do everything we can to preserve this unique advantage for Canadian workers and businesses," he said.
Since returning to the White House in January, Trump has imposed tariffs or raising them on goods from around the world, and threatened to go higher as he works to negotiate trade deals he sees as favourable to the US.
The US ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, said that Canada was jeopardising trade talks by keeping its counter tariffs in place, telling Canadian outlet Global News last week that "it has pulled the rug out from USMCA".
Washington is also struggling with rhetoric coming from some Canadian politicians against Trump and the US negotiating team, he said.
They will attack them personally, not on the policy, but them personally," Hoekstra said. "Again, that is a Canadian decision. All we do is respond to it.
Carney said the focus will now turn to accelerating negotiations on cars, steel, aluminium and lumber, and other significant sectors ahead of a scheduled review of the USMCA free trade agreement next year.
The US has placed a 50% tariff on all steel and aluminium imports, except for those from the UK, as well as copper imports, along with tariffs on auto imports.
Canada, for its part, has placed 25% tariffs on American steel, aluminium and cars, which will remain in place for now.
Economists have warned that US tariffs on steel and aluminium are "hugely disruptive" to Canada, as it is a major supplier of both metals to the US. Canadian companies have already reported cutbacks and contract cancellations as a result.
Auto manufacturing could also be vulnerable, given how intertwined all three North American countries are in making cars. Typically a car crosses the borders between the US, Canada and Mexico multiple times as it is assembled and prepared to be sold.
The province of Ontario, the centre of auto industry in Canada, has already reported losing 38,000 jobs in the last three months, the bulk of which were in manufacturing.
Source: BBC
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