White Home Senior Counselor for Commerce and Manufacturing Peter Navarro weighs in as President Donald Trump indicators the HALT Fentanyl Act into regulation, the potential U.S.-China commerce deal in addition to the administration’s commerce talks with the EU.
White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt singled out Canada Thursday, saying “our neighbors to the north have been fairly tough to cope with” as Washington and Ottawa negotiate commerce phrases.
“The commerce staff continues to be very energetic in our conversations with Canada,” Leavitt stated throughout a White Home press briefing.
Earlier this month, President Donald Trump introduced plans to impose a 35% tariff on Canada, one of many nation’s high buying and selling companions.
Final yr, the bilateral commerce relationship totaled over $762 billion with Canada exporting over three-quarters of its merchandise to the U.S., based on U.S. Commerce Consultant knowledge.
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney greets U.S. President Donald Trump on the official welcome ceremony in the course of the G7 Leaders’ Summit June 16, 2025, in Kananaskis, Alberta. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
Thus far this month, the president has introduced plans to impose a 30% tariff on imports from Mexico and all 27 international locations that make up the European Union. These tariffs comply with a 50% levy on copper imports and merchandise from Brazil and different tariffs imposed on greater than 20 international locations.
Leavitt stated the European Union, America’s high buying and selling accomplice and the world’s largest buying and selling bloc, was “keen” to barter its commerce cope with Trump.
The EU is in search of “methods to decrease their tariff and their non-tariff limitations that we have now lengthy stated hurt our employees and our corporations,” Leavitt stated.
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Thus far, European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen has held again on imposing countermeasures on the U.S., a transfer that offers the 27-member bloc respiration room to barter with Trump.
European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen gestures as she addresses a closing press convention on the finish of an EU summit in Brussels Oct. 17, 2024. (Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
Trump’s introduced tariffs are slated to take impact Aug. 1.
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“If international locations wish to have reputable additional discussions, the Trump administration and the president’s commerce staff are prepared to have additional talks,” Leavitt stated.
“However these letters these international locations have been receiving are the offers.”