Foreign Minister Anita Anita said on Tuesday that it was “superficial” to compare the approaches of Canada and Mexico to navigate trade negotiations with the United States, since their economic relationships with the United States are different, even though only Canada rises Tariff.
Anand and Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne met with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and her ministerial colleagues in Mexico City to speak to economic growth, trade and security.
The two-day journey, just as many Canadians, is wondering why the United States met on Friday with a 35 percent tariff for goods that were not adhered to in Canada-United State-Mexico Agreement on trade, known as CUSMA, in Canada, while Mexico received a 90-day creation of impending higher US taxes. The United States is Canada and Mexico among its largest trading partners.
Last week, US President Donald Trump said that the period of 90 days would allow space to negotiate a new trade agreement with Mexico, what is currently being tried to secure.
When asked whether the ministers have taken away some of their conversations with Sheinbaum that could help these conversations, Anand suggested that the meeting focused much more on Canada’s relationship with Mexico and “the desire for a strong North American economy”.
“I would like to emphasize that Canada’s economic relationship with the United States significantly differentiates between Mexico,” she said reporters on a virtual briefing.
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“It is a bit superficial to estimate individual elements of the negotiations of a country compared to our own because the relationship is so complex.”
Before the meeting, Mexican Minister of Economics Marcelo Ebrard proposed that he would talk to champagne about the experiences of the two countries in dealing with US tariffs.
“You want to know how Mexico achieves these results,” Ebrard told journalists.
“We will exchange experiences. You pay a tariff of 35 percent, and Mexico not.”
Champagne added that the talks focused on strengthening partnerships with Mexico about energy, artificial intelligence and other areas of cooperation.
He said the meeting was an example of the Canadian strategy of diversifying its international relations in view of the unpredictability of the Trump government and describing it as the right strategy for Canadians.
Mexico secured the three -month postponement After the direct conversation with Trump last week.
Prime Minister Mark Carney confirmed on Tuesday An event in British Columbia That he has not spoken to Trump “in the last few days” in the past few days after he had held several indirect discussions with the US president in the weeks before Trump had previously held several indirect discussions.
“We will speak when it makes sense,” he said.
After the meeting on Tuesday, Sheinbaum released that Canada and Mexico “strengthen the relationship between our countries”.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford last year demanded a bilateral trade agreement Between Canada and the United States because he said that Mexico was a back door for Chinese auto parts and vehicles that enter the North American market. These calls deserve support from Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau And The then detailed prime minister Chrystia FreelandNow the transport minister.
Anand said that Sheinbaum’s presence at the G7 summit of this summer in Alberta, where she met with Prime Minister Mark Carney, began the process of repairing the relationship between Canada and Mexico and that the meetings this week continued this process.
She called the meetings in a post on X “productive”.
“These discussions with the president and the members of their government have made the most important joint priorities in terms of economic growth, security and trade diversification,” she added.
Both anand and champagne emphasized that Cusma, which is due next year a mandatory review in the best year, should be offered and strengthened in the best interest of all three North American partners.
– With files from Reuters
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