U.S. commerce secretary dismisses question that free trade with Canada is dead

>U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is dismissing the question of whether U.S. free trade with Canada is dead, calling the notion “silly” and saying a substantial amount of Canadian goods enter the U.S. tariff-free under the current North American free trade deal.

>”We have a plan called [the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement], virtually 75 per cent of all goods coming from Mexico and Canada are already coming tariff-free,” Lutnick said in an interview on Face the Nation that aired Sunday morning on CBS.

>But in the same breath, Lutnick suggested tariffs on Canada are here to stay, for now.

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