Prime Minister Mark Carney will sit down with his U.S. counterpart at the White House Tuesday for their second Oval Office meeting in less than six months as the American trade war continues.
The Prime Minister's Office has billed this meeting as a chance for the two sides to discuss "preparation for the first joint review" of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) that is scheduled to start next year.
But this is also a crucial opportunity for Carney to lobby Trump to get some tariff relief as U.S. levies hammer critical sectors like steel, aluminum, autos and lumber.
"We have work to do with our American partners on sectoral tariffs," Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said in question period Monday. "That's exactly the conversation the prime minister will have with the president."
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