March 24, 2025--Written by Daniel Graeber for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said after meeting with leaders in oil-rich Alberta that his new administration was open to expanding trade options outside North America.

U.S. President Donald Trump is working to restructure North American trade through tariffs, upending a free-trade agreement he brokered during his first term in office that ended in 2021. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development was among the institutions warning recently that tariffs would undermine growth and put more wind in the global inflationary sails.