{"id":252651,"date":"2025-10-26T12:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T12:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/252651\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T12:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T12:31:09","slug":"carney-focuses-on-asia-diversifying-trade-amid-trum-tariff-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/252651\/","title":{"rendered":"Carney focuses on Asia, diversifying trade amid Trum tariff hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney offered a terse response to President Donald Trump\u2019s promise to further hike tariffs on Canadian goods in response to a TV ad, saying that Ottawa is prepared to resume trade talks with the US at any time.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cCanada stands ready to build on the progress that we had been making in our negotiations or discussions with our American counterparts,\u201d Carney told reporters in Malaysia, where he is attending the Asean meeting.<\/p>\n<p>As Carney was travelling to Asia, Trump announced an additional 10 per cent in tariffs on Canada in retaliation for <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3330146\/trump-says-all-trade-talks-canada-are-terminated?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a TV advertisement<\/a> by the province of Ontario that is airing in the US. The ad features excerpts of former US President Ronald Reagan criticising tariffs.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Ontario Premier Doug Ford had said he would stop airing the ad after the weekend, but Trump wasn\u2019t mollified. \u201cBecause of their serious misrepresentation of the facts, and hostile act, I am increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10 per cent over and above what they are paying now,\u201d Trump said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The US president also told reporters aboard Air Force One that he did not anticipate meeting with the Canadian leader while both were in Asia for a pair of global summits.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"European Council President Antonio Costa (left) and Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Mark Carney walk together as they leave a plenary session of Asean in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. Photo: EPA\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2be70e4c-c92a-4a80-9db4-1600b0e1f3a9_32e2a282.jpg\" title=\"European Council President Antonio Costa (left) and Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Mark Carney walk together as they leave a plenary session of Asean in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. Photo: EPA\"\/>European Council President Antonio Costa (left) and Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Mark Carney walk together as they leave a plenary session of Asean in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. Photo: EPA<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Carney emphasised that trade talks with the US are the \u201csole responsibility\u201d of the federal government, and said such negotiations are \u201cthe best way forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney offered a terse response to President Donald Trump\u2019s promise to further hike tariffs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[33861,23,3995,32522,32524,137427,103,137426,48041,1205,9580,3,2432,17570,3997,1866,21,19,22,20,25,137425,24],"class_list":["post-252651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-air-force-one","tag-america","tag-asia","tag-asia-pacific-economic-cooperation","tag-association-of-southeast-asian-nations","tag-bloomberg-l-p","tag-canada","tag-canadian-government","tag-doug-ford","tag-malaysia","tag-mark-carney","tag-news","tag-ontario","tag-ronald-reagan","tag-singapore","tag-south-korea","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-mexico-canada-agreement","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}