Canadian, US Officials to Meet After Canada Removes Some Tariffs
Trucks at the Fairview Container Terminal in the Port of Prince Rupert in Prince Rupert, British Columbia.
Photographer: James MacDonald/BloombergDominic LeBlanc, the Canadian cabinet minister leading US trade talks, will travel to Washington to meet with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick just days after Canada pledged to remove most of its retaliatory tariffs on US goods.
“We are looking, I hope, for an agreement that will put us in a better position than we are right now,” LeBlanc said Monday in a French-language radio interview on Canada’s public broadcaster.