🚨🇺🇸🇨🇦 The Canada trade talks collapsed and 50% tariffs hit $20 billion of goods at midnight
-U.S. trade representative Jamieson Greer says Canada walked away after days of talks brought both sides close
-He says Washington offered Canada the best treatment of any major exporter to the American market
-Greer blamed new demands and walked-back commitments for upending the balance reached this week
-Trump had said repeatedly this week that a good deal was near
-Ottawa has not responded
Trump paused these same tariffs three days ago citing a deal subject to finalizing documents.
Whatever Canada was asked to sign in that window, it decided the tariffs cost less.
Watch the provincial alcohol bans, which his own officials named as the sticking point and no prime minister can deliver alone.
Source: The New York Times
-U.S. trade representative Jamieson Greer says Canada walked away after days of talks brought both sides close
-He says Washington offered Canada the best treatment of any major exporter to the American market
-Greer blamed new demands and walked-back commitments for upending the balance reached this week
-Trump had said repeatedly this week that a good deal was near
-Ottawa has not responded
Trump paused these same tariffs three days ago citing a deal subject to finalizing documents.
Whatever Canada was asked to sign in that window, it decided the tariffs cost less.
Watch the provincial alcohol bans, which his own officials named as the sticking point and no prime minister can deliver alone.
Source: The New York Times