{"id":94333,"date":"2026-06-18T20:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T20:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/94333\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T20:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T20:23:13","slug":"carney-says-canada-us-held-detailed-technical-trade-talks-at-g7-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/94333\/","title":{"rendered":"Carney says Canada, US held detailed, technical trade talks at G7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">June 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Thursday he and his team \u200chad a series of discussions on trade \u200cissues with U.S. officials at the G7 summit in France this \u200bweek, including talks with President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I had a number of conversations with the president in parallel in the last few days at the G7 on \u200ca range of \u2060issues, including some of the commercial aspects,&#8221; Carney told reporters at an event in \u2060Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Carney described the talks as &#8220;a series of technical conversations&#8221; that were &#8220;very detailed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Trump said on Wednesday that the \u200bUnited States \u200bwould do better without \u200bthe U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on \u200ctrade and that he would prefer not to have a new one, but added that he was open to doing it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The three countries need to approve a renewal of their existing agreement by July \u200c1 or signal their intention \u200bto exit the pact, a \u200bprocess that would \u200btake 10 years and would buy \u200ctime for alterations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Carney said &#8220;it&#8217;s no \u200bsecret&#8221; that Trump \u200bhas been unhappy with the agreement, but added there are a number of issues that \u200bCanada and the \u200cU.S. can work on, including trade in \u200bforestry products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Ryan Patrick Jones in Toronto; \u200bEditing by Caroline Stauffer )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Thursday he and his team \u200chad a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[31388,111,202,35235,7493],"class_list":["post-94333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mark-carney","tag-g7-summit","tag-mark-carney","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-technical-conversations","tag-trade-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}