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Canada And The U.S. Resume Trade Talks

Canada And The U.S. Resume Trade Talks

After a nearly six-month hiatus.

Canada and the United States have resumed trade talks suspended by U.S. President Donald Trump for the first time since October 2025.

It was reported by CBC.

On March 6, Canada's negotiator, Minister Dominique LeBlanc, met with U.S. Trade Representative Jamison Greer in Washington.

After the meeting ended, LeBlanc refrained from commenting to the media.

The U.S. continues to levy Trump's "punitive" tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum, engineering products and many other categories of goods. As the time has come to negotiate a renewal of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade agreement (CUSMA), Canada plans to try to get rid of tariffs against its most important areas of the economy as part of those negotiations.

This gives the U.S. additional "leverage" to bargain for changes it wants - such as on market access for dairy products in Canada and enforcement of rules requiring U.S. streaming platforms to offer Canadian content.

The threat remains that the U.S. will want to generally "bury the

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