<div><br />''</div>''<div>Canada will respond in kind to any tariffs imposed on its steel or aluminum exports to the United States.&nbsp;</div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said at the close of a seventh round of continental trade talks in Mexico.&nbsp;</div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>He said Canada will take appropriate, responsive measures to defend the trade interests and the workers.&nbsp;</div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>Earlier, US President Donald Trump said he would not back down on the tariffs, nor offer exclusions to North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico unless he gets a &quot;fair&quot; deal in the current negotiations to revamp the 1994 trade agreement.<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">&nbsp;</span><br />''</div>