Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged United States President Donald Trump in a phone call on Monday to reconsider plans to reimpose import tariffs on Canadian aluminum.
Trudeau claimed that new aluminum duties would mar the beginning of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) on trade, calling the deal the "new NAFTA." Trump has called the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) "one of the worst deals ever made" and replaced it with the USMCA.
The US exempted Canada from its aluminum tariffs in an effort to secure the ratification of the USMCA. However, recent reports emerged that Washington is considering reintroducing the duties.
