India, Nov. 1 -- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Saturday (local time) that he apologised to United States President Donald Trump over an anti-tariff advertisement featuring former US President Ronald Reagan.

"I did apologise to the president. The President was offended," news agency AFP quoted Carney as saying in South Korea's Gyeongju where he attended the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.

He also said that trade talks would resume with the US when the latter is "ready".

Carney also said that he had asked Ontario's Conservative premier Doug Ford, who commissioned the ad, to not go ahead with it. "It's not something I would have done," the Canadian PM said, reported Bloomberg.

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