Collins Urges US to Return to Trade Talks with Canada

Susan Collins calls for tariff truce as trade war emerges as hot issue in Senate races

GOP Sen. Susan Collins, who is in a hotly contested reelection race in Maine, is calling on the Trump administration to cut a trade deal with Canada.

Collins warns Canadian tariffs will hit $170M in Maine goods, urges return to negotiations • Maine Morning Star

Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins said Friday that roughly $170 million in local goods will be impacted by the proposed Canadian tariffs, with more than half of that coming from the forest product sector.  Collins wrote to U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and urged them to resume […]

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Outlines How Canada Manufactured Political Outrage for Domestic Consumption

As we have all learned in the past week, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney manufactured an oppositional narrative to the U.S-Canada trade deal in order to say no. Today, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick gave specifics about the last-minute Canadian demands that blew up the trade agreement. Secretary Lutnick has a long-standing relationship with Prime Minister […]

Lutnick accuses Canada of deliberately scuttling trade talks

He told reporters on Thursday the Carney government was desperately seeking to create division with the Americans to justify walking away from the negotiating table.

Collins urges US to return to trade talks with Canada

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Thursday again pressed for the U.S. to return to talks with Canada amid the escalating trade war between two countries. Collins, who previously criticized the 50 percent tit-for-tat tariffs both countries imposed after negotiations failed last weekend, said in a post on the social platform X on Thursday afternoon that…

Lutnick claims Canada pulled out of trade talks due to the Quebec election, Alberta referendum

Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said Thursday there is a possibility of reaching a "mutually beneficial” agreement with the U.S.