NAFTA: “We are ready to all” – Justin Trudeau

AFP

Maxime Huard

Wednesday, 11 October 2017 14:52

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After having been confronted with the threats of the president Donald Trump on the termination of the free trade Agreement north american (NAFTA), Justin Trudeau says he is ready for any eventuality, Wednesday, and even to sign an agreement without the Mexico.

“There are other potential avenues, said the prime minister of Canada, addressing the media from the roof of the canadian embassy in Washington, dc. The circumstances are quite unpredictable and we are ready for anything.”

If, at the conclusion of his meeting with the american president, Mr. Trudeau reiterated be confident of reaching an agreement beneficial to all parties, it is the first time he gives glimpses of a form of openness to a bilateral agreement.

“It has left the door open. It shows that he is not wedded to the inclusion of Mexico in the negotiations,” said the lecturer at the University of Montreal and a specialist in the field of american policy, Philippe Fournier.

The renegotiation of the NAFTA, including the fourth round began Wednesday in Virginia, were on all lips during the day. The president of the United States was threatened in the early afternoon, and in front of the prime minister, to terminate the agreement. He also spoke about the possibility of signing a bilateral agreement.

“It is possible that we may not be able to hear us with one or the other of the two countries,” said the billionaire Donald Trump in front of reporters in the oval Office before the meeting between the two leaders.

“It’s part of the “trumpisation” of commercial relations, a lecturer at the University of Sherbrooke and an expert in international economic law, David Poppy. The president Trump wants to deals bilateral because it is a lot easier to negotiate.”

On the issue of taxation in the United States of 300 % of the countervailing duties and anti-dumping duty on the aircraft of the CSeries by Bombardier, the prime minister was said to have had frank discussions, but difficult, with the president and expressed his disagreement.

Mr. Trudeau has from starting Thursday morning for Mexico city to sit down with the president Enrique Peña Nieto. This is the first official visit of the canadian prime minister to Mexico.