Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has spoken with Donald Trump, after the president-elect announced plans to impose tariffs when he is in the White House.
The pair spoke by phone for about 10 minutes last night, a Canadian government official said.
The official says that during the call, the Canadian prime minister pointed out that the number of migrants crossing the Canadian border was much smaller compared to the US-Mexico border.
Donald Trump has said he wants to introduce tariffs – or taxes on imports – on three countries: Canada, Mexico and China.
In 2023, the value of imports of goods and services from these three leading trading countries to the US was nearly $1.5tn, according to the US government’s Bureau of Economic Analysis., externalSo what do they trade?
In 2022, the latest year for which there is a full breakdown of the types of goods and services imported, the top import from Canada to the US was crude petroleum, valued at $117bn.
This made up 60% of the US gross total crude oil imports, external.
From China, imports of computers and broadcasting equipment came to more than $100bn.
The top import from Mexico was also computers valued at almost $37bn.
Imported cars from Mexico were worth more than $34bn in 2022.
Trump and Trudeau reportedly had a “good conversation”, speaking about trade and border security, and agreed to keep in touch.