Canadian leaders have spent weeks to apply US President Donald Trump to impose 25 percent of goods limiting goods to the border.

The US leader repeated that threat Recently, Thursday afternoonJust from February 1 to two days before Has offered his administration Tariffs can be carried out.

In the conditions of this tense, CBC readers ask how it is even possible when it signed the Canada-US-Mexico Agreement (Hazta), which was caused by Trump.

However, experts from economics and trade, the United States may cite national security as Cusma as its actions and plows, maybe Canada recognize tariffs.

“The commercial agreement is simply a contract … And the contracts can be broken,” said Gus Van Harten, a professor at the Toronto University of York.

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Arsenault, a national economy that threatens US President Donald Trump, asks the Central Bank of Alex Panetta and Catherine Kulen to break what he wins Canada.

Erin Brown, Norton Rose Fulbright Law Firm, member of the working group of his cross-border trade law, agrees that there is no way for Canada to stop the US tariff.

“The reality is that the denomination is less than the teeth,” he said in an interview.

In any case, the readiness of the United States, threatening Canadian and Mexico, seems to emphasize the dissatisfaction of the Trump administration with the status quo, when it comes to trade.

“I will fall (threatened) tariffs as a statement that they tear the trade agreement,” said the Associate Professor Jaccard Jaccard Jaccard.

Why Cusma?

Trump has been criticized by NAFTA Before he ever reached the White HouseA number of Kiwa was negotiated during its first term in the Oval office.

Canada, Mexico and the United States have agreed to agree on Cusma transaction In the fall of 2018But it was Further modified next year Before authentication eventually occurred In 2020.

Canadian government Summary of Cusma's Results He says that the agreement intended to strengthen economic ties between the three parties, while maintained the benefits of “Oil” trade, some adjustments to “resolve modern trade challenges and opportunities”.

Robert Lighthizer, US Trade Representative During the first Trump management, Greeted the emergence of Kuma on time As a “famous achievement” in the Efforts to promote production and investment in the economy of North America.

The brown of Norton Rose Fulbrice said that the purpose of Canada is easier to make trading transactions like CUSMA, and it includes tariffs.

“The main foundations of CUSMA and other commercial agreements are that we reduce or eliminate tariffs,” he said.

Another goal of a trade transaction like CUSMA is a feeling of stability, “said the UBC Jacccard, noting that any US operations could disrupt its reputation.

However, there are instructions that the trump card may have Motivation mixture Now to have a tariff threat.

Tariffs before, after cymism

Canada has already collided with US tariffs in the first term of the Trump's Office, both before the existence of the hawka.

In the spring of 2018, the White House of Trump National Security quoted When targeting Canadian steel, at 25 percent tariffs and aluminum at 10 percent. Ottawa replied Tariffs: independently. Until it was About a year laterHowever, both sides announced that they are taking them out.

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But Trump has become tariffs again in August 2020, To slap the 10 percent tariff On Canadian aluminum, again referring to national security when imposing them. Canada, in turn, Certificate Measures:And on that occasion, the US President paused Tariffs next monthA number

A number of exceptions are put in CUSMA including Article about “Basic Security” Which reports that nothing prevents the parties to “apply measures to apply for international peace or security to maintain security or security. Hotspent

The translation is that the United States is able to move forward using this justification at tariffs.

Listening to Trump and Other management officials It worries the concerns about Fentane's trafficking and migration, Brown noted that the presidential administration can lead to “the exception of national security” to justify tariffs.

What can Canada do about this? It can search for a settlement process, but York University Van Harten said it was not a night process, and in his opinion, Canada cannot be successful.

“Even if we win, the means is to make responsible sanctions,” said Van Harten, noting that it was deteriorated by the time.

At a wider level, the brown says that Trump does not appear on the order based on “Extremely oppressed” international rules, which has a long managed trade. This can have any consequences for what can be expected from its department.

“I don't think he's ready to tear completely,” said the brown, marking Trump Indicated that he wants to transform CusmaA number

The future:

Van Harten claims that Trump's recent actions are “the shift of the whole policy, which takes us from the age of all this globalization,” the first is focused on his administration.

And he says he believes that Canada will find eternity from the whims of the United States until they choose another path.

“If we do not change … Before the oilA number

Despite the UBC Jaccard, the open approach of Canada would have a way to trade in the world as a way forward.

He said that this may include the dissemination of other Markets in Canada or seeing this country more international buyers than the United States