US President Trump’s point man on trade talks says Canada needs to accept that tariffs will be a part of any deal with the administration, including renewal of the Canada-US-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA). In interviews after Trump’s state of the union address, US trade representative Jamieson Greer suggested Canada can’t expect to land a trade agreement that is free of tariffs. …”If Canada wants to agree that we can have some level of higher tariff on them while they open up their markets to us on things like dairy and other things, then that’s a helpful conversation.” It’s the clearest signal yet from the Trump administration that it’s aiming for a fundamental rewrite of the free-trade deals that have existed since NAFTA took effect in 1994. …He also criticized Canada for failing to agree to US requests to back off from “practices that we think are unfair”.