TARIFFS
Joly said she will raise trade tariffs “in every single meeting” at the G7.
Trump’s tariffs campaign has rattled markets and unsettled the global trade outlook.
He has threatened and imposed a dizzying number of levies, including a blanket 25 percent tariff on steel and aluminum imports that came into effect Wednesday.
Rubio acknowledged that he would likely discuss trade tensions when he meets Joly but said the two countries still had “common interests”, including in the G7.
“Our obligation is to try, to the extent possible, to not allow the things we work on together to be impacted negatively by the things we disagree on right now,” Rubio told reporters on his way to Saudi Arabia.
The meeting of top diplomats from the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Italy comes ahead of a G7 summit in the Canadian province of Alberta in June.
Source: CNA
