{"id":9790,"date":"2018-06-03T21:47:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T03:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&p=9790"},"modified":"2018-06-03T21:47:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T03:47:26","slug":"i-love-canada-i-love-mexico-i-love-em-trump-says","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/i-love-canada-i-love-mexico-i-love-em-trump-says\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI love Canada. I love Mexico. I love \u2019em,\u2019 Trump says after lashing back at Canada over Trudeau\u2019s tariff criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Picture: P<\/strong><\/em>resident Donald Trump is imposing 25 per cent steel tariffs and 10 per cent aluminum tariffs on Canada, Mexico and the European Union, all of which he had previously exempted. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded Thursday with his own list of tariffs to take effect in July. (EVAN VUCCI \/ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

After lashing back at Canada in response to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u2019s criticism of his new tariffs, U.S. President Donald Trump declared that he loves Canada \u2014 but also floated the idea of killing the North American Free Trade Agreement that Canada supports and instead creating separate trade deals with Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n

Canada and Mexico both want to stay in the three-country NAFTA that has existed since 1994. Trump\u2019s Friday comments come nine months into the negotiations, which he initiated, that are intended to make changes to that three-country pact.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be honest with you \u2026 I wouldn\u2019t mind seeing NAFTA where you\u2019d go by a different name, where you make a separate deal with Canada and a separate deal with Mexico. Because you\u2019re talking about a very different two countries,\u201d Trump said outside the White House.<\/p>\n

Canada and the U.S. had their own two-country trade agreement from 1989 until the three-country NAFTA replaced it in 1994.<\/p>\n

Trump has been criticized by Canadian and Mexican leaders and numerous members of his own party for hitting such close allies with steel and aluminum tariffs. Trump responded: \u201cThey\u2019re our allies, but they take advantage of us economically.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI love Canada. I love Mexico. I love \u2019em. But Mexico\u2019s making over $100 billion a year and they\u2019re not helping us with our border,\u201d Trump said, falsely describing a trade deficit that was $69 billion (U.S.) last year and has never been $100 billion.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s latest remarks cast further doubt on his commitment to an agreement he described again as \u201ca terrible deal for the United States.\u201d Negotiations have stalled amid several serious disagreements.<\/p>\n

Negotiators, however, have shrugged off previous musings from the president in the past and continued with the three-country negotiations. Canada has not ruled out the idea of a two-country agreement without Mexico.<\/p>\n

Trump criticized Canada on three separate occasions on Thursday and Friday after Trudeau delivered an unusually pointed rebuke of Trump\u2019s tariffs and vowed to retaliate with Canadian tariffs on more than 100 U.S. products.<\/p>\n

Trudeau taped a Friday interview with NBC\u2019s Meet the Press, which airs Sunday, to make his anti-tariff case to an American audience.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea that we are somehow a national security threat to the United States is quite frankly insulting and unacceptable,\u201d Trudeau said, repeating his Thursday argument against the national security provision under which the tariffs were officially imposed.<\/p>\n

In a rare nighttime statement on Thursday, Trump called out Trudeau by name: \u201cThe United States has been taken advantage of for many decades on trade. Those days are over. Earlier today, this message was conveyed to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada: The United State (sic) will agree to a fair deal, or there will be no deal at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a tweet Friday morning, Trump returned to his familiar complaints about Canadian agriculture.<\/p>\n

\u201cCanada has treated our Agricultural business and Farmers very poorly for a very long period of time. Highly restrictive on Trade!\u201d he wrote. \u201cThey must open their markets and take down their trade barriers! They report a really high surplus on trade with us. Do Timber & Lumber in U.S.?\u201d<\/p>\n

U.S. data has consistently shown that the U.S. has a trade surplus with Canada. Canadian data, calculated differently, has shown that Canada has the surplus. Regardless, economic analysts agree that the relationship is largely balanced and that the existence of a surplus or a deficit is not a good way to measure the quality of a trade relationship.<\/p>\n

Trump has periodically complained about Canadian agriculture policy, particularly with regard to milk. His administration is demanding changes to Canada\u2019s supply management system as part of the NAFTA talks.<\/p>\n

In his Friday remarks outside the White House, Trump falsely claimed: \u201cCanada doesn\u2019t take \u2014 I mean, they\u2019re very restrictive as to taking our agricultural product and other things.\u201d Trump\u2019s Agriculture Department reported in March that Canada bought more U.S. agricultural products in 2017 \u2014 $20.5 billion (U.S) worth \u2014 than any other country.<\/p>\n

Trudeau had long attempted to maintain a positive posture toward the impulsive president, responding only indirectly to Trump\u2019s jabs at Canada. The prime minister\u2019s remarks on Thursday represented his sharpest criticism to date.<\/p>\n

By DANIEL DALE<\/p>\n

Washington Bureau Chief<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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