OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump met with Prime Minister Mark Carney and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on the sidelines of the World Cup soccer tournament draw in Washington on Friday.

More than a month after Trump ended Canada-U.S. trade negotiations , the president and the two other leaders went into a private meeting at the venue where the draw was held.

They took a group photo, but there were no political staff in attendance at the event at the Kennedy Center, according to Carney’s office.

It was unclear whether, or to what extent, they talked about the tariffs Trump has imposed on key sectors of the Canadian and Mexican economies — on steel, aluminum, copper, autos and lumber, along with broader tariffs (from 10 to 35 per cent in Canada’s case) on goods that

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