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RSS FeedsCanadians don´t want NAFTA deal ratified until tariffs lifted, Freeland says
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

25 march 2019 23:35:50

 
Canadians don´t want NAFTA deal ratified until tariffs lifted, Freeland says
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


WASHINGTON—Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says she told U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade chief on Monday that Canadians don’t want Parliament to approve the new NAFTA deal until Trump lifts his tariffs on steel and aluminum.Freeland, like other Canadian officials before her, stopped short of explicitly saying that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government would refuse to ratify the agreement if the tariffs remained in place.But she said that she told U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer “that the existence of these tariffs for many Canadians raises some serious questions about NAFTA ratification.”“I have heard from a lot of Canadians that they would be really troubled by Canada moving forward with ratification while the tariffs are still in place. To Canadians, it just doesn’t make sense,” Freeland said after the meeting in Washington.Parliament is expected to sit until late June. If it does not ratify the agreement by then, ratification is unlikely to happen until after the election that is expected in October.Lighthizer told the U.S. Congress earlier in March that the tariffs would only be removed if they were replaced by some other measure, like quotas, that could protect the “basic integrity” of Trump’s initiative to defend the U.S. steel industry, which he said the president views as “very successful.”Mexico’s government also spoke out Monday against the tariffs and the possible quotas, Reuters reported, with Deputy Economy Minister Luz Maria de la Mora saying “quotas make no sense.”The legislatures of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico all need to vote in favour of the deal in order for it to take effect. Ratification by the U.S. Congress is far from assured with Democrats in control of the House of Representatives.Daniel Dale is the Star`s Washington bureau chief. He covers U.S. politics and current affairs. Follow him on Twitter: @ddale8


 
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