Canada's Freeland pushes end of steel, aluminum tariffs in meeting with Pelosi

Reuters

Published Feb 16, 2019 02:51PM ET

Canada's Freeland pushes end of steel, aluminum tariffs in meeting with Pelosi

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Saturday she had made clear in a meeting with U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the Munich Security Conference the importance of the U.S. lifting tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Canada.

Freeland said that while Canada is now focused on its domestic ratification process for the U.S.-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade deal, it remains strongly opposed to the Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum.