Trudeau Goes to Mar-a-Lago to See Trump Amid Tariff Concerns

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada on Friday night landed in Florida to see President-elect Donald J. Trump at Mar-a-Lago, two officials with direct knowledge of the visit said, after a threat by Mr. Trump to impose across-the-board tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico on Day 1.

The visit makes Mr. Trudeau the first head of government from the Group of 7, a key forum of global coordination consisting of the world’s wealthiest democracies, to visit the president-elect.

One official said that Mr. Trudeau and Mr. Trump would dine together Friday evening, and that Mr. Trudeau was expected to stay in the area overnight, but not at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s private club and home in Palm Beach, Fla.

Mr. Trudeau was accompanied on his visit by Dominic LeBlanc, Canada’s minister of public safety.

The Trump transition team did not respond to requests for comment, and there was no information released about Mr. Trump’s schedule on Friday.

Mr. Trudeau has been scrambling to formulate a plan to respond to the threat made this week by Mr. Trump to impose a 25 percent tariff unless Mexico and Canada take action to curb the arrival of undocumented migrants and drugs across their borders into the United States.

Mr. Trump said he would sign such a measure on his first day in office, a move that could potentially cripple trade across the continent.