"The company also noted that it spent more than $2.5bn annually with suppliers, and said its supply chain was “made up of approximately 2,800 American companies across 47 states”.
Negotiations between both sides broke down on 21 August after days of meetings in Washington, with Carney saying at the time that the Trump administration’s terms were ultimately unacceptable and that US negotiators had introduced restrictions on Canadian trade deals with other countries at the 11th hour.
US officials also made unacceptable “threats” to the French language and “Quebec culture”, he added, referencing the French-speaking province in eastern Canada, with Carney saying American negotiators viewed the measures as an “irritant”, while “in Quebec, these are rights”.
But Trump’s top trade official Jamieson Greer later noted the US government was aware that French language protections were sensitive and important."
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