Mark Carney sees in the distance a “landing zone” which would allow Canada and the United States of Donald Trump to sign a new commercial agreement in the coming days.
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Less than a week before the deadline on August 1, the Prime Minister reported that the negotiations had reached an “intensive phase”.
“There is an landing area that is possible,” illustrated the one who has been managing negotiations for months now.
However, he recalled, even confirmed, that the new agreement will not be a return to the past.
“As I made the observation a few weeks ago, it is unlikely that there are agreements without prices, with no price,” said Mr. Carney at a press conference on Prince Edward Island.
On Sunday, Ursula von der Leyen of the European Union and Donald Trump agreed on the contours of a major trade agreement before the deadline of August 1, but whose details remain to be finalized.
This involves 15 % prices on European products imported into the United States, a commitment to $ 1,000 billion in energy purchases to Americans and $ 822 billion in additional investments in the United States.
In return, customs duties have been lifted in certain strategic sectors such as aeronautical equipment.
Two days earlier, Donald Trump left a certain frustration by declaring that the United States was “no luck with Canada.”
“These are negotiations. Yes, of course, we are difficult, because we are fighting for Canada, “said Mark Carney on Monday.
