Canada warns Donald Trump’s tariffs could leave US reliant on Venezuela’s oil

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Utawa’s foreign minister has warned that the United States would have to buy oil from geopolitical competitors such as Venezuela if trade with Canada.

Mélanie Joly told the Financial Times the US President’s threat to impose a 25 percent fee on Canadian imports that will strike “real people” if relations between the two countries descended into a commercial war.

“We charge oil with a discount, and in the end, the refined in Texas. Jolie said, referring to the heavy grades of oil produced in Venezuela and Canada on which many American refineries depend.

Jolly said: “There is no other option on the table, and this administration does not want to work with Venezuela.”

US President Donald Trump imposed comprehensive sanctions on Caracas during his first term at the White House.

Jolie was in the American capital, which leads Canada’s efforts at the last minute to avoid the first complete trade war for the new Trump administration, with the president’s threat again on Thursday to implement a tariff of 25 percent of Canada and Mexico starting from February 1.

The president said he was considering excluding oil imports from definitions – which reflects the United States’ dependence on its neighbor to obtain huge energy supplies.

Despite the high production of shale oil in states such as Texas, Canada represents about one in five barrels of oil consumed in the United States and about 60 percent of imported crude.

Many American refineries rely on the type of heavy oil produced in Canada or Venezuela – not on the lighter degrees produced by the oil rock industry in America.

Julie, who traveled to Washington to meet with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other American officials, said that she also warned legislators against Capitol Hill that commercial tensions would strike “real people”, especially in the republican states.

“We don’t want that,” said Jolie. “We want us to be in a profitable position for both sides, and we think we can present it.”

Ottawa and Mexico City have laid off lists of reprisal tariffs for its issuance against the United States if Trump pulled the trigger to the tariff against them, and he also told people who have knowledge of the FT issue.

Canada’s Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkenson pledged to “Al -Halamiya” graphics on American goods such as steel and orange juice if Trump continued his threats.

Trump has launched frequent broad aspects against Canada in recent weeks, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as a “ruler” and claims that the country must become the 51st United States.

Trump said in a speech earlier this month that an implicit in the United States “would” would be “really” and can use “economic power” to do so.

Jolie said the idea did not appear in any of her meetings with US officials. “Certainly no,” she answered, when I was asked.

“We can be really good friends, the best friends, but we will never be a country or a colony,” she said.

Canada and Mexico also tried to prove to Trump that they believe in their wild borders with the United States in response to its allegations that drugs and migrants illegally cross into his country.

“On the border, I think we are getting a good preposition,” Jolie said, adding that she will meet Tsar Tom Human, the border Trump on Friday.

Canada has pledged to spend one billion dollars on border security, and recently deployed helicopters from the newly rental Black Hawk patrols, additional dogs and 60 drones on the border partially in response to Trump’s demands – as well as concerns about weapons and unconventional migrants who arrive from the United States who arrive from the states United.

“We also wanted to enhance the borders to our side, because we are interested in the flow of illegal weapons coming from the United States and the potential flow of illegal immigrants from the United States,” said Jolie.

Trump threatened to deport millions of people without a permanent legal status from the United States, which raised fears that some immigrants would travel to Canada to search for a shelter.

Jolie said that although the American president clearly linked his early threat by 25 percent of the tariff with border security, the United States and Canada will review their broader commercial relationship, including the trade deal in North America that Trump signed during his last administration, As part of a separate process.