Lower tariffs of Chinese EVs
While Trump has waged a trade war over the past year, Canada this month negotiated a deal to lower tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) in return for lower import taxes on Canadian farm products.
Trump initially had said that agreement was what Carney “should be doing and it’s a good thing for him to sign a trade deal.”
Trump’s threat came amid an escalating war of words with Carney as the Republican president’s push to acquire Greenland strained the NATO alliance.
Trump had commented while in Davos, Switzerland, this week that “Canada lives because of the United States.”
Carney shot back that his nation can be an example that the world does not have to bend toward autocratic tendencies.