WASHINGTON — Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc is set to meet with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in Washington this week after Ottawa announced it would be lifting some retaliatory tariffs.

LeBlanc’s office said he will travel to the United States capital on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced last Friday that Canada will drop some retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products to match American tariff exemptions for goods covered under the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement on trade, called CUSMA. .

Canada’s counter-tariffs on steel, aluminum and automobiles will remain.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday called the decision to lift some duties “nice” and the White House said it was “long overdue.”

LeBlanc has said the retaliatory tariffs were a “significant p

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