Trump's trade czar says U.S. didn't make last-minute trade demands

U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade czar went on a Canadian news network Wednesday to dispute Prime Minister Mark Carney’s assertions about why negotiations between the two countries fell apart.

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