Canada is worried about President Joe Biden’s planned provisions of “Buy American” and will, according to the top diplomat in Canada, harm the case against moves that damage the countries’ trade relationship of $ 725 billion.
Biden is expected to sign an executive order this week requests federal agencies to purchase goods and services from U.S. companies. Marc Garneau, Canada’s foreign secretary, said he expected the new government to discuss the measures with Justin Trudeau’s government.
“President Biden is aware of this and the Prime Minister has made it very clear that we are concerned about Buy American policy because it actually harms our bilateral trade relationship which is so tightly integrated,” Garneau said in a television interview with CBC News said.
The US and Canada exchanged according to the foreign ministry, in 2019 it is close to $ 2 billion a day in goods and services, making it ‘the world’s most comprehensive trade relationship’. Some industries, such as the automotive sector, have strong cross-border supply chains.
‘Sometimes, some of the products we offer to the United States already has American components in it. And these are messages that we carried a lot during the Nafta 2 negotiations with the Trump administration, Garneau added.
The minister’s remarks come after Biden Trudeau dealt a blow on the inauguration day by withdrawing the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, which would take more than 800,000 barrels a day of crude oil from Western Canada to Nebraska.
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