Canada dodges Trump tariffs with border commitments
President Donald Trump has postponed 25% tariffs on Canada for at least one month after Prime minister Justin Trudeau agreed to enhance border security measures. Trudeau announced the implementation of a $1.3 billion border plan, which includes increased personnel, technology, adn coordination with U.S. partners to combat issues like fentanyl trafficking.The agreement aims to prevent the tariffs from imposing significant trade burdens,especially after Trudeau warned that Canada would retaliate with similar tariffs on U.S. imports if the measures were enacted. The White House confirmed the deal, which includes Canada’s commitment to appoint a Fentanyl Czar and establish a joint task force to tackle organized crime. Meanwhile, Trump has also signaled potential 10% tariffs against China, contingent on the outcomes of upcoming trade talks.
Canada dodges Trump tariffs with border commitments
President Donald Trump has delayed 25% tariffs on Canada for at least one month after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agreed to strengthen his border policies.
“Canada is implementing our $1.3 billion border plan — reinforcing the border with new choppers, technology and personnel, enhanced coordination with our American partners, and increased resources to stop the flow of fentanyl,” Trudeau wrote on social media Monday. “Nearly 10,000 frontline personnel are and will be working on protecting the border.”
The deal was confirmed by the White House.
The deployment of 10,000 troops to the border is similar to the commitment made by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum earlier Monday to delay tariffs for 30 days.
“In addition, Canada is making new commitments to appoint a Fentanyl Czar, we will list cartels as terrorists, ensure 24/7 eyes on the border, launch a Canada-U.S. Joint Strike Force to combat organized crime, fentanyl and money laundering,” Trudeau added. “I have also signed a new intelligence directive on organized crime and fentanyl and we will be backing it with $200 million.”
Trump’s 25% tariffs against Canada and Mexico were set to be imposed early Tuesday morning after he signed three executive orders last weekend, though Canadian energy would have been levied at a lower rate of 10%.
Trudeau told reporters last weekend that if Trump’s tariffs on Canada go into effect, his country would respond in kind with its own 25% duties on $155 billion worth of imported U.S. products.
Trump has simultaneously threatened 10% tariffs on China, which were poised to be imposed Tuesday.
“We’ll have some good meetings with China,” Trump told reporters on Monday in the Oval Office. “We have meetings planned, and, we’ll see what happens. But that was just an opening salvo. If we can’t make a deal with China, then the tariffs will be very, very substantial.”
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