Canada is worried about President Joe Biden’s planned “Buy American” provisions and will support the case against actions that would affect the countries’ trade relationship, worth 725 billion dollars, according to the main Canadian diplomat.
Biden is expected to sign an executive order this week urging federal agencies to buy goods and services from American companies. Marc Garneau, Canada’s foreign minister, said he expected the new administration to discuss the measures with Justin Trudeau’s government.
“President Biden is aware of this, and the prime minister has made it very clear that we are concerned about Buy American policies because it is actually hurting our bilateral trade relationship, which is so closely integrated,” Garneau said in a television interview. CBC News.
The US and Canada have changed nearly $ 2 billion a day in goods and services in 2019, making it “the most comprehensive trade relationship in the world,” according to the State Department. Some industries, such as the automotive sector, have highly connected supply chains that stretch across the border.
“Sometimes some of the products we sell to United States they already have American components in them. And these are messages that we carried a lot during the Nafta 2 negotiations “with the Trump administration, Garneau added.
The minister’s comments come after Biden struck Trudeau on the day of the inauguration by revoking the license for the Keystone XL pipeline, which allegedly took more than 800,000 barrels a day of crude from western Canada to Nebraska.
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