Trump said Friday, dismissing objections from some of the countrys closest allies.Speaking with reporters at the White House on Friday, Trump said Americas neighbours are "two very different countries" that perhaps should no longer be governed by the same trade rules."The comments came hours after Trump lashed out at Canada by tweet, accusing Americas northern neighbour of treating "our Agricultural business and Farmers very poorly for a very long period of time.""Highly restrictive on Trade! They must open their markets and take down their trade barriers!" he wrote. US Commerce Department numbers show the US recorded a trade surplus with Canada for each of the past three years. Mexico complained the tariffs will "distort international trade" and said it would penalize US imports including pork, apples, grapes, cheeses and flat steel.
A White House official said a range of issues had yet to be resolved.The United States had sought to use the tariff threat as a cudgel to win concessions from Canada and Mexico in talks to renegotiate NAFTA, offering the two US neighbors a permanent exemption if they agreed to US demands.Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that hed offered to go to Washington this week to complete the talks, thinking they were close to an agreement, but that Vice President Mike Pence called him and told him a meeting with the US president would only happen if Trudeau agreed to put a five-year 4.8 YEWLLOW ZINC PHILLIPS ROSS RECESSED COUNTERSUNK SCREW M6 Factory sunset clause into the deal..Trump has long railed against NAFTA, condemning it as a job-killing "disaster" that has decimated US manufacturing. "Theyre our allies but they take advantage of us economically.Trudeau said hed refused to go because of the "totally unacceptable" precondition
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