Canada’s minister leading the stop-and-start trade negotiations with the United States says the situation is ultimately “resolvable,” but noted it will take some time to find a solution to the ever-evolving trade war.

Dominic LeBlanc told the Senate foreign affairs and international trade committee Thursday that his talks with the Trump administration are currently focused on lowering or removing sectoral tariffs on industries like autos and lumber, which he hopes to make progress on before next year’s scheduled review of the Canada-United States-Mexico agreement on free trade (CUSMA).

Although he expressed optimism that Canada is getting closer to both a resolution on those tariffs and a positive CUSMA review in July — thanks in part to the removal of reciprocal measures and pressur

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