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The United States would be forced to buy oil from geopolitical rivals such as Venezuela when it disrupted the trade with Canada, Ottawa’s Foreign Minister warned.
Mélanie Joly announced the Financial Times that the threat of the US President, to impose 25 percent for Canadian imports, would affect “real people” if the relationships between the two countries go into a trade war.
“We send oil with a discount that is ultimately refined in Texas. If it is not us, it is Venezuela, ”said Joly and referred to the heavy oil classes in Venezuela and Canada of which many American refineries depend.
“There is no other option on the table and this administration does not want to work with Venezuela,” said Joly.
US President Donald Trump imposed Caracas in the White House during his first term.
Joly was in the American capital, which led Canada’s last-minute efforts, to avert the first full-grown trade war of the new administration of Trump, with the president threatened again on Thursday to apply Customs of 25 percent on Canada and Mexico from February 1st.
The President said he is considering excluding oil imports from the tariffs – which reflects the dependence of the USA on their neighbors for enormous energy supply.
Despite the increasing slate oil production in states such as Texas, Canada makes up about one of five barrels of oil in the USA and about 60 percent of its imported crude oil.
Many US refineries depend on the type of heavy oil produced in Canada or Venezuela – not on the lighter notes produced by the productive slate industry of America.
Joly, who had traveled to Washington to meet the US Foreign Minister Marco Rubio and other high -ranking US officials, said that she warned the legislators on the Capitol Hill that trade voltages would hit “real people”, especially in Republican countries.
“We don’t want that,” said Joly. “We want us to be in a win-win position and we believe that we can offer that.”
Ottawa and Mexico city have both created Lists of the retaliation tariffs In order to spend the United States out against the United States, Trump deployed the tariffs against them, the people who know the matter beforehand said the FT.
Canada’s Minister of Energy Jonathan Wilkinson has sworn “tit for tat” Taxes for American goods such as steel and orange juice when Trump takes through his threats.
Trump has launched repeated broad sides against Canada in the past few weeks. He describes Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “governor” and claimed that the country was to become the 51st state of the United States.
In a speech at the beginning of this month, Trump said that a US annexation of Canada “would really be something” and that he could use “economic strength”.
Joly said the idea had not appeared in any of her meetings with US officials. “Absolutely not,” she replied when she was asked.
“We can be really good friends, best friends, but we will never be a state or a colony,” she said.
Canada and Mexico have also tried to demonstrate Trump that they ensure their extensive land borders with the United States in response to his claims that drugs and migrants illegally go into his country.
“At the border I think we will get a good traction,” said Joly, adding that she would meet Trump’s border quota Tom Homan on Friday.
Canada has undertaken to issue $ 1 billion for border security and recently released Black Hawk Patrol helicopter, additional dogs and 60 drones on the border.
Joly said: “We also wanted to strengthen the border at our side because we deal with the river of illegal weapons that come from the USA and the potential flow of illegal migrants from the USA.”
Trump has threatened to deport millions of people without constant legal status from the United States, which must be considered that some migrants will travel to Canada to look for refuge.
Joly said that the US President had clearly associated his early threat from 25 percent tariffs with border security, but the USA and Canada would check its broader trade relationship, including the North American trade agreement signed by Trump during his last administration, as part of the framework A separate process.