By Ismail Shakil and Tim Reid
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump mentioned on Saturday he had a “very productive” assembly with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during which they mentioned border-related points and different matters together with commerce, power, and the Arctic.
Trudeau flew to Florida on Friday night and had dinner with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residence, days after Republican Trump had pledged to impose tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports after he’s sworn in as president in January.
That pledge has raised fears of a commerce warfare between the U.S. and two of its largest buying and selling companions.
Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum warned this week Trump’s tariff plan would have dire penalties for each international locations and urged potential retaliation following his menace of across-the-board 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports.
Trump desires to make use of tariffs as a software to get Mexico and Canada to assist stem the stream of unlawful medicine into the U.S., notably the lethal opioid fentanyl, and likewise migrants crossing illegally into the U.S.
“We mentioned many essential matters that can require each International locations to work collectively to deal with, just like the Fentanyl and Drug Disaster that has decimated so many lives because of Unlawful Immigration, Honest Commerce Offers that don’t jeopardize American Staff, and the huge Commerce Deficit the U.S. has with Canada,” Trump mentioned in a put up on Fact Social.
“Trudeau has made a dedication to work with us to finish this horrible devastation of U.S. Households,” he added.
Trudeau’s workplace didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark about his assembly with Trump.
In a separate put up, Trump referred to as on the so-called BRICS international locations to decide to not creating a brand new forex or supporting one other forex over the U.S. greenback.
If these international locations achieve this they’ll face “100% tariffs”, Trump mentioned.
BRICS refers to unique members of the intergovernmental group of economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
It additionally consists of Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates.
“We require a dedication from these International locations that they’ll neither create a brand new BRICS Foreign money, nor again another Foreign money to interchange the mighty U.S. Greenback or, they’ll face 100% Tariffs, and may count on to say goodbye to promoting into the fantastic U.S. Financial system,” Trump wrote.
This text was produced by Reuters information company. It has not been edited by International South World.
