Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday that she had spoken with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and that the two had agreed to strengthen trade collaboration, particularly in light of the tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump set to go in effect on August 1.
“We both agreed that the (U.S.-Canada-Mexico) trade agreement needed to be respected, and we shared our experiences about the letter than we received from President Trump,” Sheinbaum said in her daily morning press conference.
Trump has sent a flurry of letters in recent days, threatening to slap a range of tariffs on U.S. trade partners.
Isn’t it more economical to do mass transport by sea anyway? We can just go through international waters.
And all Canada’s largest population centers are connected to the sea.
Calgary and Edmonton are large population centres, and they’re hundreds of km from the sea, and the shortest route to the sea involves going over some enormous mountains.
Toronto is technically connected to the sea via the St. Lawrence, but you can’t exactly park a container ship in the Toronto harbour. I mean, technically Minneapolis is connected to the sea via the Mississippi but there’s a reason there’s no big container port there.
You’re right, I wasn’t imagining Calgary and Edmonton to be this large but I just looked up and they are.
Shipping by rail is generally quicker, at a relatively low price point, and with far less ecological impact.
Shipping things like produce via sea to/from Mexico would likely result in a lot of spoiled food. Larger non-perishables it ‘might’ work, but you wouldn’t bother if you have a cheap, less damaging and quicker option available.