Customs Duties: Trump Rejects Canada’s Outstretched Hand

Determined to impose a new increase in customs duties on products from its northern neighbor, Donald Trump on Monday refused to meet with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney amid tensions over an advertisement he described as a “hostile act.

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Customs Duties: Trump Rejects Canada’s Outstretched Hand

Donald Trump

Determined to impose a new increase in customs duties on products from its northern neighbor, Donald Trump on Monday refused to meet with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney amid tensions over an advertisement he described as a “hostile act.”

“We are ready to sit down at the negotiating table (…) when the United States is ready to do so,” Mr. Carney told reporters on the sidelines of the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) summit in Malaysia.

But such a prospect appeared highly un

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