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

US 'won't dictate terms' of free trade talks, says PM Carney16 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleNadine YousifSenior Canada reporterGetty ImagesPrime Minister Mark Carney said Canada will not let the US dictate the terms of free trade negotiations between the two countries. 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. "It's not a case ​that the United States dictates the terms. 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, though trade officials are in communication. On Tuesday, Carney convened a new advisory committee on Canada-US trade relations, with their first meeting set for next week.Jean Charest, a former Quebec premier who sits on the new advisory committee, told broadcaster Radio-Canada that the US is looking for "a lot of concessions from Canada" before bilateral talks began.The US has raised several...