Prime Minister Mark Carney defended Canada’s Chinese electric vehicle deal with China to U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday.

Carney is set to attend the annual G7 Summit in France, with no official bilateral meeting confirmed with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Prime Minister Mark Carney defended Canada’s Chinese electric vehicle deal with China to U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday.

L’accord entre le Canada et la Chine conclu en janvier avait irrité le président américain.

Prime Minister Mark Carney may not have a bilateral meeting planned yet with U.S. President Donald Trump, but a hot microphone caught them talking about trade at the G7 leaders’…

An open microphone and roving television camera captured the Canadian leader explaining to a seated Trump just how wrong the criticisms were of a Canadian deal struck with China.

U.S. President Donald Trump is happy with Canada allowing some Chinese EVs at a low-tariff rate, Prime Minister Mark Carney said. Read more.

The prime minister said Trump liked the structure of Canada's EV deal with China

The arrangement allows a capped number of electric vehicles from China to be imported at a low-tariff rate.

“He likes the structure,” Carney told reporters. Later, Trump said: “I don’t know that I said I like it, but I could understand that.”