OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand and Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne flew to Mexico Monday to talk economic growth, trade and security with President Claudia Sheinbaum.
The two days of meetings are taking place ahead of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s planned visit to Mexico to meet with Sheinbaum.
The U.S. hit Canada on Friday with a 35 per cent tariff on goods not compliant with the Canada-United States-Mexico agreement on trade, known as CUSMA. Mexico, meanwhile, received a 90-day reprieve from threatened higher U.S. levies.
CUSMA is scheduled for a mandatory review next year.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford last year called for a bilateral trade deal between Canada
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