Lutnick’s last-minute demands derailed Canada trade talks: Reports

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s interventions in the U.S.-Canada trade talks helped the weeks-long negotiations fall apart, according to multiple reports, thrusting the two countries into a trade war. U.S. and Canadian officials had felt good about an outline of a trade deal struck last Tuesday ahead of the origina

Canada was right to impose counter-tariffs after the U.S. threatened its national sovereignty during trade talks, says a public policy expert.