Canadian Foreign Minister Jolie to meet Rubio in the form of US Tariff Threat Karghe. Donald Trump News
Canada, US President Donald Trump, says that the standing tariffs are working, which can be imposed in early 1 February.
Canadian Foreign Minister Melani Jolie Jolie Washington will meet at DC with its American counterpart Marco Rubio, as Canada wants to remove the threat of a possible trade war between the United States tariffs and the two countries.
Jolie is set to negotiate with the Secretary of State for US State in the US capital on Wednesday afternoon.
His visit comes when the administration of US President Donald Trump has threatened to slap 25 percent tariffs on all Canadian goods entering the country in early Saturday.
“Our aim is to ensure that we stop (tariffs) and we believe that we can do it,” Jolie told reporters in Ottawa earlier this week. “We will continue to connect with our separate American counterparts.”
The Canadian government has faced rising pressure including opposition MPs and business leaders, which can do whatever can be done to close the potentially crippled tariffs.
The US and Canada are the major trading partners. According to Canadian government data, countries exchanged $ 2.7 billion (3.6 billion Canadian dollars) in daily border in 2023.
Experts say that both economies will be affected by American tariffs, as well as an anti -retaliation measures from Canada.
But Trump has threatened Canada and other countries, as he won the US presidential election in November.
Trump warned that tariffs against Canada would apply on their first day in the office on January 20 if the country failed to exceed irregular migration and drug trafficking across the border.
He later pushed the plan back on 1 February.
“We are going to demand respect from other countries,” Trump said last week during a video address at the World Economic Forum Summit in Davos, Switzerland. “We have a tremendous deficit with Canada. We are not going to do this. We cannot do this. ,
White House spokesman Karolin Levitt also said this week that “February 1 for Canada” is still standing.
He told reporters on Tuesday, “The President is committed to implementing Tariffs effectively, as he did in his first term.”
Canada has not yet provided concrete details that the Trump administration is planning a ventilative measures to implement tariffs on Canadian goods.
Nobody wants to see us tariffs on canadian goods. But we will be ready with a strong, national reaction if we need one.
pic.twitter.com/nvxgelep3n– Justin Trudeau (@justintrudeau) 28 January, 2025
Public Broadcaster Radio-Canada said earlier this month that the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has prepared a plan that will impose tariffs at $ 25.5 billion ($ 37 billion canadian dollars) of US goods.
Radio-Canada said that Ottawa is also ready to implement strict measures, which can cover the goods of $ 76BN (110 billion Canadian dollars).
“Everything is going to be on the table,” Quebec Premier Jean Charrest, who sits in Trudeau’s newly formed council on Canada-US relations, said in a recent interview with CNN.
“I suspect that you will hear that Canadian officials talk about what they intend to do until they actually do so, this is the way we are going to manage this situation.”
Charest also emphasized the importance of Canadian energy export to the US.
According to the US Energy Information Administration Research Group, the country is the largest foreign energy supplier in the US: About 60 percent of US crude oil imports came above 33 percent of Canada in 2023.
Canada sent about 97 percent of its crude oil exports to the south of the border in the same year. Most of those supply came from the oil-rich province of Alberta.
“Nobody is, although we’re out of there saying that we are going to cut it,” said Cherast. “But there are other options on how we can deal with energy to be able to make our point. We would not like to do this, but if we have to make our point, we will do it. ,
