{"id":177755,"date":"2025-08-26T19:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/177755\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T19:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:02:09","slug":"leblanc-meets-lutnick-in-washington-aiming-to-restart-trade-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/177755\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBlanc meets Lutnick in Washington, aiming to restart trade talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc leaves the M\u00e9tis Major Projects Summit in Ottawa on Aug. 7. He met with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in Washington on Tuesday.Spencer Colby\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc met with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in Washington on Tuesday in a bid to restart stalled trade talks. <\/p>\n

Mr. LeBlanc\u2019s spokesman, Jean-S\u00e9bastien Comeau, said the pair had a \u201cconstructive, lengthy\u201d morning meeting, which was also attended by Kirsten Hillman, Canada\u2019s ambassador to the U.S., and Marc-Andr\u00e9 Blanchard, Prime Minister Mark Carney<\/a>\u2019s chief of staff. The sit-down is the first since Mr. Carney further rolled back retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. last week. <\/p>\n

Ottawa drops some retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. in bid to reset trade talks<\/a><\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> hiked tariffs<\/a> at the start of August after the two countries missed a deadline imposed by Mr. Trump to reach a deal. Mr. Trump has launched a global trade war and signed a string of deals with countries in Europe and Asia in which those countries agree to accept American tariffs and make other concessions in exchange for Mr. Trump not setting the tariffs even higher. <\/p>\n

Canada has so far held out for a better deal, though Mr. Carney has conceded that any agreement will probably include Canada agreeing to some level of tariffs. Talks are believed to centre on steel, aluminum and autos, all of which are subject to hefty tariffs by Mr. Trump. He has said his ambition is to stop having the U.S. import any of these things, a scenario that would deliver a serious blow to Canada\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc leaves the M\u00e9tis Major Projects Summit in Ottawa…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":177756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2148,2138,671,104,2132,692,64,2147,2131,2143,2144,2140,2133,2130,79,407,746,2142,2137,2159,2134,2135,454,2139,1165,728,2149,108,2154,2155,2157,2152,2156,2150,2153,2136,85,2146,80,2145,2151,1458,158,1164,2141,67,132,68,1154,107,2158],"class_list":{"0":"post-177755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-arts-news","10":"tag-bc","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-breaking-news-video","13":"tag-british-columbia","14":"tag-business","15":"tag-canada","16":"tag-canada-news","17":"tag-canada-sports","18":"tag-canada-sports-news","19":"tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","20":"tag-canadian-breaking-news","21":"tag-canadian-news","22":"tag-economy","23":"tag-education","24":"tag-environment","25":"tag-federal-government","26":"tag-foreign-news","27":"tag-globe-and-mail","28":"tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","29":"tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","30":"tag-government","31":"tag-life-news","32":"tag-lifestyle","33":"tag-local-news","34":"tag-manitoba","35":"tag-national-news","36":"tag-new-brunswick","37":"tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","38":"tag-northwest-territories","39":"tag-nova-scotia","40":"tag-nunavut","41":"tag-ontario","42":"tag-pei","43":"tag-photos","44":"tag-political-news","45":"tag-political-opinion","46":"tag-politics","47":"tag-politics-news","48":"tag-quebec","49":"tag-sports-news","50":"tag-technology","51":"tag-travel","52":"tag-trudeau","53":"tag-united-states","54":"tag-unitedstates","55":"tag-us","56":"tag-us-news","57":"tag-world-news","58":"tag-yukon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}