DES MOINES – Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley said U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to hit an array of Canadian goods with new tariffs should serve as a "wake-up call to Canada to make some changes."
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DES MOINES – Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley said U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to hit an array of Canadian goods with new tariffs should serve as a "wake-up call to Canada to make some changes."
DES MOINES – Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley said U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to hit an array of Canadian goods with new tariffs should serve as a “wake-up call to Canada to make some changes.”
“I think the president is probably using them as a lever,” Grassley said Friday in an interview with The Canadian Press at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines.
While the senior Republican has been a key backer of Trump’s agenda on Capitol Hill, he also has continued to voice his support for free trade despite the president’s growing tariff regime.
Grassley said there’s nothing wrong with Canada and the United States having tough negotiations but they can’t be allowed to undermine the trilateral trade agreement known as CUSMA.
“These negotiations cannot be used as a way of destroying (CUSMA),” Grassley said.
Canadian officials have intensified trade talks with their American counterparts in recent weeks after Trump signed an executive order to impose 50 per cent tariffs on a range of Canadian goods starting Aug. 19.
The Trump administration says the new duties are a response to provincial bans on U.S. liquor, Canada’s supply-managed dairy system and quotas on certain U.S. vehicles.
