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\u00a0Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney\u00a0said Sunday his country has no intention of pursuing a free trade deal with\u00a0China. He was responding to U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s threat to\u00a0impose a 100% tariff\u00a0on goods imported from Canada if America\u2019s northern neighbor went ahead with a\u00a0trade deal\u00a0with Beijing.<\/p>\n
Carney said his recent agreement with China merely cuts tariffs on a few sectors that were recently hit with tariffs.<\/p>\n
Trump claims otherwise, posting that \u201cChina is successfully and completely taking over the once Great Country of Canada. So sad to see it happen. I only hope they leave Ice Hockey alone! President DJT\u201d<\/p>\n
The prime minister said under the free trade agreement with the U.S. and Mexico there are commitments not to pursue free trade agreements with nonmarket economies without prior notification.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have no intention of doing that with China or any other nonmarket economy,\u201d Carney said. \u201cWhat we have done with China is to rectify some issues that developed in the last couple of years.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2024,\u00a0Canada mirrored the United States\u00a0by putting a 100% tariff on electric vehicles from Beijing and a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum. China had responded by imposing 100% import taxes on Canadian canola oil and meal and 25% on pork and seafood.<\/p>\n
Breaking with the United States this month during a visit to China, Carney cut its 100% tariff on Chinese electric cars in return for lower tariffs on those Canadian products.<\/p>\n
Carney has said there would be an initial annual cap of 49,000 vehicles on Chinese EV exports coming into Canada at a tariff rate of 6.1%, growing to about 70,000 over five years. He noted there was no cap before 2024. He also has said the initial cap on Chinese EV imports was about 3% of the 1.8 million vehicles sold in Canada annually and that, in exchange, China is expected to begin investing in the Canadian auto industry within three years.<\/p>\n
Trump posted a video Sunday in which the chief executive of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers\u2019 Association warns there will be no Canadian auto industry without U.S. access, while noting the Canadian market alone is too small to justify large scale manufacturing from China.<\/p>\n
\u201cA MUST WATCH. Canada is systematically destroying itself. The China deal is a disaster for them. Will go down as one of the worst deals, of any kind, in history. All their businesses are moving to the USA. I want to see Canada SURVIVE AND THRIVE! President DJT,\u201d Trump posted on social media.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s post on Saturday said that if Carney \u201cthinks he is going to make Canada a \u2018Drop Off Port\u2019 for China to send goods and products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can\u2019t let Canada become an opening that the Chinese pour their cheap goods into the U.S,\u201d U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a (United States\u2013Mexico\u2013Canada Agreement), but based off \u2014 based on that, which is going to be renegotiated this summer, and I\u2019m not sure what Prime Minister Carney is doing here, other than trying to virtue-signal to his globalist friends at Davos.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s threat came amid an escalating war of words with Carney as the Republican president\u2019s\u00a0push to acquire Greenland\u00a0strained\u00a0the NATO alliance.<\/p>\n
Carney has emerged as a leader of a movement for countries to find ways to link up and counter the U.S. under Trump. Speaking in Davos before Trump, Carney said, \u201cMiddle powers must act together because if you are not at the table, you are on the menu\u201d and he warned about coercion by great powers \u2014 without mentioning Trump\u2019s name. The prime minister received widespread praise and attention for his remarks, upstaging Trump at the World Economic Forum.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s push to acquire Greenland has come after he has repeatedly needled Canada over its sovereignty and suggested it also be absorbed into the United States as a\u00a051st state. He posted an altered image on social media this week showing a map of the United States that included Canada, Venezuela, Greenland and Cuba as part of its territory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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