let s do that later. i will call you a second time. thank you very much. you have described india and can you explain that? india charges tremendous tariffs. when we send harley davidsons to india, they charge high tariffs. i spoke to the and he is going to reduce them. nobody ever spoke to these people. he said nobody ever spoke to me. we had leaders here, i m not trying to be overly dramatic. we had presidents of the united states and trade representatives that never spoke to india. brazil is another one. that s a beauty. they charge us whatever they want. if you ask the companies, they say brazil is among the toughest and maybe the toughest in the world. we don t call them and say you are treating our country
cathedral that wrapped up moments ago . welcome to america s news hq live from washington. i am gillian turner. great to be with you. we will have analysis and thoughts on senator mccain s life and legacy and throughout our show. i am leland vittert. president trump at his golf club but continuing his fight with our neighbor to the north saying that canada has taken advantage of the united states for years.the commons, as there appears to be a deadlock in negotiations over a new nafta deal. ellison barber at the white house on words the president that were off the record are not exactly helping things. reporter: neither are those tweets. trade representatives are set to start talking about nafta negotiations. those are supposed to start up
allison barber is live with more from the white house. reporter: us and canadian trade representatives will start nafta negotiations on wednesday but some tweets from this morning from donald trump might make those talks more difficult or less comfortable. donald trump tweeted there is no political necessity to keep canada in the new nafta deal, after decades of abuse canada will be out. congress should not interfere with these negotiations are i will simply terminate nafta entirely and we will be far better off. yesterday remarks the president made to bloomberg news off the record linked to a canadian publication, markets seemingly upended days of negotiation with the us and canada failing to reach a deal by friday deadline. according to the toronto star donald trump told bloomberg news he is not, rising with canada, he can t say it publicly because
violate wto rules. it is a 25% u.s. levy on $16 billion worth of goods, 279 goods, things like farm equipment, semi conductors, motorcycles. as well, china is saying it will slap tariffs on $16 billion worth of u.s. goods, specifically cars, buses and coal. there have been trade talks happening with both sides in washington, but so far there s been very little progress and american companies and industry groups have been complaining to trade representatives saying, look, this is hurting our companies, this is hurting the economy, it is impacting the global supply chain, and ultimately it is going to be the u.s. consumer that is going to pay the higher price. meanwhile, we are seeing it play out in state media here. the newspapers are carrying story how the u.s. auto industry is fearful and auto companies are, quote, losing sleep at night in michigan. president trump though doesn t appear to be listening to the concerns. he said in july that if need be
reporter: for the fourth consecutive week the mexican delegation met with us trade representatives to finalize nafta. for the first time in 20 weeks white house advisor jared kushner joined the negotiations, the delegation all smiles, even joking as they walked in. one issue expert say the us has to depend on is subtext laws that were not addressed last weekend one of the items tackled by the end of this week. the us wants nafta to end after five years but mexicans went reassessment of the numbers after five years. we have not yet discovered. we are working for the last four weeks and we are hoping we will see the end of the total. the new mexican president-elect would like a revised nafta deal for his first day in office but once a deal is done with mexico it will be presented to canada to sign on