US 'won't dictate terms' of free trade talks, says PM Carney

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has ruled out making concessions ahead of further talks with the US while a top US official warned the two countries remain fundamentally misaligned on trade. The comments come at a tense time for US-Canada trade and as the future of a major North American free trade deal remains unclear. On Wednesday, US trade representative Jamieson Greer told Congress that Canada is "doubling down on globalisation when we're trying to correct for the problems of globalisation". Carney meanwhile told reporters that Ottawa will not let the US "dictate the terms" of free trade negotiations. "It's not a case where there is someone making demands, and a supplicant," he said. He added: "We have a negotiation, we can come to a mutually successful outcome - it will ​take some time." Canada, the US and Mexico are staring down a deadline of 1 July for a mandatory review of the free trade agreement between the three countries, called the USMCA. Mexico is due to start formal bilateral negotiating rounds with the US in May, Greer's office has said. He and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum met on Monday. Formal talks between the US and Canada have yet to get underway, tho