The Globe and Mail reports in its Thursday edition that Prime Minister Mark Carney's failure to reach a comprehensive tariff-reduction deal with U.S. President Donald Trump, as the likes of Britain, the European Union and South Korea have already managed to do, is seen by some as a failure on the PM's part. The Globe's Doug Saunders writes that in fact, Mr. Carney's lack of a major deal might better be seen as a shrewd strategic move. The latest quarterly joint economic forecast by Germany's five major economic institutes concludes that the EU deal, which involves a pledge to invest more than 600 billion euros in the U.S. in exchange for most tariffs being reduced to 15 per cent, do not offset its burden. Many experts are now calling it a "submission" and a strategic mistake. The U.S. deal with Britain, which left the country with 10-per-cent baseline tariffs, has been similarly savaged. Starting on Nov. 5, the U.S. Supreme Court will be ruling on the constitutionality and legality of all of Mr. Trump's tariffs, justified under the 1977 Emergency Economic Powers Act. For now, have no choice but to remain at the table, even if it is better to avoid any big commitments until North American trade renegotiations begin.