Trump expects Canada to cancel tariffs in the next month

U.S. President Donald trump said that in the next month Canada will remove mutual trade duties and offer conditions for a new deal with Washington.

They will come to us and say, ‘We’re going to remove all tariffs.’ "Sir, it's our fault." They treated the United States very, very badly. I think a deal will be made, but it has to be a fair deal, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

Negotiations between the United States and Canada on the issue of tariffs, which took place in late summer, ended inconclusively. In response, Washington imposed a 50 percent tariff on Canadian imports worth about $20 billion, and Ottawa imposed retaliatory measures that affected steel, dairy products and agricultural machinery.

Earlier, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen announced the beginning of the development of a mechanism for the integration of Ottawa into the EU. In response, Mr. Trump warned that granting Canada the status of an associate member of the European Union would lead to a large-scale reduction in US trade with European countries.

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