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Trump agrees to pause tariffs on Mexico and Canada for a month

US President Donald Trump has announced that he is pausing tariffs on Mexico and Canada after speaking to leaders of both countries on Monday — just hours before the sweeping actions were set to go into effect.

The proposed tariffs, which Trump announced Saturday, consisted of a 25% duty on all imports from Mexico and most from Canada (there was a carve-out for a 10% tariff on energy products), and a new 10% tariff on Chinese goods. Trump said earlier Monday that he’d be speaking with China soon.

Trump paused the tariffs on America’s neighbours after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made commitments, some of which they had already made, to bolster security at their respective borders with the United States.

Trump announced on social media platform Truth Social that the Mexican president agreed to send 10,000 members of her country's national guard to the border to address drug trafficking.

After his call with the US president, Trudeau said Canada would be implementing its previously announced $1.3 billion border plan, as well as committing to appointing a “fentanyl czar” and listing cartels as terrorists.



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