US President’s trade secretary Donald Trump said the price In Canada and Mexico, it still happens Tuesday, although it seemed to suggest that there could be changes to the original plan of 25%.
Howard Lunick said in an interview on the term contracts on Fox News Sunday morning that there would be prices in Canada and Mexico from the announced date of March 4, although Trump would determine at what levels.
“There will be prices on Tuesday in Mexico and Canada,” he said. “Exactly what they are, we will leave this to make the president and his team negotiate.”
The secretary’s comments come only three days after the president said that his prices threatened by 25% against the two countries were going forward as expected.
In an article Thursday on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump reiterated his assertion, these prices were linked to the flow of fentanyl and migrants in the United States since the two countries.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Sunday that the government would continue to work to prevent prices, in particular by stressing “important discounts even in the small quantity of fentanyl” which crosses the border.
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“We will continue to work, to make sure, to do our best to make sure that there are no prices on Tuesday,” Trudeau told journalists. “But if there were prices on Tuesday, as we all saw, as we were ready to do the last time, we will have a strong, unequivocal and proportional response as the Canadians await.
However, Lutnick told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo that Canada and Mexico had done a “border work”.
“March 4 concerns the border and Mexico and Canada did a reasonable work on the border, they both work hard on the border,” said Lux. “But fentanyl continues to enter this country and continues to kill our people.
“They did a lot, so he somehow thinks at the moment how he wants to play with Mexico and Canada and it’s a fluid situation.”
According to Canadian federal data, less than one percent of fentanyl entering the United States from Canada.
Data from the American customs and border protection agency show that in January, fentanyl seizures on the Canada-American border have dropped to its lowest levels since 2023, with less than 14 grams seized during the month. More than 19 kilograms of Canada fentanyl were apprehended during the last financial year.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the cabinet ministers said that the fentanyl crises on the border had dropped 90% in the last month, which the White House underlined when Trump’s call with Trudeau’s call last weekend.
However, Trump said at an oval office meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday that Canada had not progressed in the fentanyl “at all”.
It is not only Canada and Mexico that will face prices on Tuesday. Trump is expected to further increase tariffs on China by 10% to 20%. Lutnick said that this number is fixed unless China ends fentanyl traffic in the United States
Lutnick’s comments also intervene one day after Trump ordered him to investigate the question of whether prices were to be imposed on American imports of Canadian wood. This decision would add to existing tasks already on flexible wooden wood and the prices to come on Tuesday.
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