WASHINGTON — Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said he left Washington Wednesday with a sense that progress was made after a meeting with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

“It was constructive in the sense it was an exchange of views that I think helped both us and the Americans understand the work we need to do to get, we hope, to an agreement,” LeBlanc said in an interview with The Canadian Press after arriving in Montreal.

This week’s progress came after Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Aug. 22 that Canada will drop some retaliatory tariffs in an effort to intensify trade talks hoping to ease pressures from U.S. President Donald Trump’s duties on key Canadian sectors.

LeBlanc said his meeting with Lutnick on Tuesday began with both sides commenting on the positi

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