Carney set to speak after ‘productive’ call with Trump on trade war
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Carney said Thursday that he and Trump had discussed 'trade challenges, opportunities, building a new economic and security relationship between Canada and the U.S.'
Prime Minister Mark Carney will hold a press conference Friday, one day after he held a “productive and wide-ranging” call with U.S. President Donald Trump amid ongoing trade tensions between the two countries.
The Prime Minister’s Office announced the press conference hours before it’s scheduled to begin at 12 p.m. Eastern. Global News will stream Carney’s remarks live in this article.
Trump is also set to make an announcement from the White House at the same time as Carney.
Multiple U.S. media outlets including Bloomberg and Reuters, citing a source familiar, reported Friday that Carney plans to remove many of Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. in a bid to lower trade tensions. Global News has not independently confirmed those plans.
Carney said Thursday that he and Trump “focused on trade challenges, opportunities, building a new economic and security relationship between Canada and the U.S., and supporting long-term peace and security for Ukraine and Europe” in a post on social media that called the discussion “substantive and lengthy.”
A statement from the Prime Minister’s Office said Trump and Carney “agreed to reconvene shortly.”
Trump has yet to publicly confirm details of the call.
It marked the first known phone call between the two leaders since an Aug. 1 trade deal deadline passed, and Trump raised tariffs on Canada to 35 per cent.
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