All signs refer to Canada and the United States that hold trade negotiations in two separate phases – some now to direct irritation substances and the rest next year.
The process still takes shape. However, the two-stage idea arises in comments between Prime Minister Mark Carney and US President Donald Trump after the meeting of this week.
The first phase? A quick advance of facilitating tensions over tariffs and stabilizing trade relationships anchored in the wider security relationship in Canada-US.
As a result, both sides can bypass the formal review of the Canada-USA-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), which should not be started legally Until next year.
Due to Trump’s own comments, it is not even clear that he has kept Cusma as a three-country pact, let alone the technical feasibility of accelerating the negotiating time bar.
Three days after Prime Minister Mark Carney had traveled to Washington to set the stage for trade negotiations, the Canadian ambassador to Kirsten Hillman speaks with power and politics about the next steps in this process and how quickly the federal government could achieve results.
The Canadian ambassador to the USA announced CBC News that the countries did not immediately look at the wider North American pact.
“Whether there is a possibility that the advanced Cusma review is not really discussed,” said Kirsten Hillman on Friday.
“At the moment we are focusing on the meeting and the agreement between the Prime Minister and the President, which is supposed to have some bilateral discussions to make an agreement that works for both countries.
“Concentrate on a Canadian US agreement.”
She was in contact with the US trade representative Jamieson Greer, while the Minister of Commerce Dominic Leblanc spoke to the US Minister of Trade Howard Lutnick.
Comments on the US side reinforce the idea that Washington sees bilateral business with individual countries as a greater priority than multi-country agreements.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said that he had told US President Donald Trump that his 51st state comments were “not useful” in her first official meeting, and Trump praised Carney as a “very good person” -but US tariffs remain in place. The moderator of Power & Politics, David Cochrane, speaks of Washington to the President of the Business Council of Canada, Goldy Hyder, the Democratic MP Seth Moulton and the representative of Ontario in Washington David Paterson about how much Carney has brought the Canadian thing ahead.
“I don’t even know if we will deal with USMCA,” said Trump during his oval office meeting with Carney with the US acronym for the North American trading pact.
“We have more to do with concepts.”
Take a look at discussions in Great Britain
So what could such concepts look like? The US Ambassador in Canada showed as a template for this week US Kingdom agreementAn informal agreement that is not legally embedded.
Some of the main topics of these negotiations meet those who are expected in Canada and US talks, Pete Hoekstra told The National Post.
In an interview with the post office, he mentioned the removal of tariffs for British steel and aluminum, which Canada will certainly search. He then told us that the taxable digital services in Great Britain are still unresolved.
He added: “I only know that they treat the same problems.”
What has already completed these negotiations in Great Britain, but Canada did not call it that Hoekstra described it as a priority, but said that Canada’s choice slowed things.
Since then, the countries have started to map the basic architecture of how these negotiations will develop.
“Now the frame begins,” said Hoekstra.
The security element Carney increased
It was Carney’s idea to combine the trade in a broader conversation about Canada about security. The main goal: Canadian goods to protect from national security tariffs.
How could that look?
Take the example of Canadian No. 1 in the most lucrative export: oil. The former conservative guide Erin O’Toole has it recommended Ensuring the United States Certain volumes per year at discount prices – in other words what is already happening.
Carney made a cryptic comment in Washington. He alluded to the fact that Canada was part of the solution to Trump’s concern about Asian parts.
An official from the auto industry, Flavio Volpe, said Canada could relieve itself of tariffs by taking several steps to measure Trump for national security reasons.
You could include preferred customer agreements with the United States for coveted raw materials, critical minerals, uranium and oil and gas.
It could be similar to agreements that Canada signed Germany And it is Car company Three years ago, said Volpe, head of the Canadian National Auto-Parts Makers’ Association. Canada, he said, could also guarantee that certain Chinese parts are kept away by North American supply chains.
These are the types of conversations that begin to start.
“You could make this separated from Cusma.”
