Trump may meet Canada and Mexico ‘in the middle’, says US commerce chief

US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lootnik said President Donald Trump “maybe” announces a deal to reduce the customs tariff for Canada and Mexico on Wednesday.

“Both the Canadians and Mexicans were on the phone with me all the day in an attempt to show that they would do better” when reducing the flow of artificial optually to the United States, “Lootnick said in an interview with Fox Business.

But Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly told NewSNights that her office was not contacted on the plan.

Canada and Mexico announced the import of revenge on the United States after it entered a 25 % tariff for its neighbors on Tuesday.

Lutnick explained that it is expected to reduce the US tariff instead of stopping it.

I think [Trump’s] I will discover, “You are doing more, and I will meet you in the middle in some way.” Perhaps we will announce it tomorrow. “

Jolie said that US officials “could say many things”, but “the only one who makes a truly decision is President Trump.”

Lootnick received a call with Doug Ford, Prime Minister at Ontario, according to the sources that told Globe and Post that he had warned about Canadian revenge and what was seen as personal attacks against Trump.

The US President used a large part of A letter to Congress on Tuesday sets its commercial policiesBut he did not say whether he intended to cut the definitions that came into effect this week.

Trump said on April 2 with plans for mutual definitions of countries around the world it sees unresolved in the United States.

Earlier on Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau criticized the Trump’s comprehensive tariff for his countryHe described it as “a very stupid thing to do” and pledged to make “an uncompromising battle” to protect its economy.

Trudeau announced a retaliatory tariff about American exports and warned that the trade war will be expensive for both countries.

But Trump prompted further in a post on the social truth platform, saying: “Please clarify the ruler Trudeau, from Canada, that when he puts a retaliatory tariff for the United States, our mutual tariffs will immediately increase with a similar amount!”

Trudeau accused the US president of planning “a complete collapse of the Canadian economy because this will be implicitly.”

“This will never happen. We will never be the 51st country,” he told reporters.

Washington also increased its commercial war with Beijing on Tuesday as a 10 % new tax on Chinese imports that entered into force – adding to the existing fees from Trump’s first and those announced last month.

“China will fight to the bitter end of any commercial war,” a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said after her country announced the definitions that reach agricultural imports from the United States.