President Donald Trump temporarily gave up tariffs on some, but not all of Canada and Mexico two days after the launch of a Continental trade warIn particular those who fall under the North American free trade agreement.
Trump has signed a new decree giving some exemptions to Canada after having originally declared Thursday that only Mexico would get a partial stay on scanning rates until April 2.
The delay in an exemption for Canada came after Trump equaled new attacks on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau following a stormy exchange on Wednesday.
Canada will delay its second cycle of reprisals until April 2 following the temporary stay of Trump, the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Finance.
According to a new modified prescription signed by Trump, imports from Canada that comply with the Canada -United (CUSMA) agreement (CUSMA) – mainly auto components – will avoid prices of 25% for a month.
“In order to minimize disturbances in the automotive industry and car workers in the United States, the prices imposed on Canada should be adjusted,” said the amendment.
Potash – that American farmers import Canada for fertilizers – will be a price of 10%, the same pace to which Trump tariffs Canadian energy products.
Imports from Mexico comply with CUSMA will be excluded from 25% prices for a month, according to a separate order.
About 62% of imports from Canada are likely to be faced with new prices because they do not comply with CUSMA, according to a White House official who insisted on anonymity to preview orders on a call with journalists, reported the Associated Press and Reuters. Half of Mexico imports which do not comply with CUSMA would also be imposed under the prescriptions signed by Trump, the official said.
Trump Wednesday had announced a reprieve of the prices on the three large car manufacturers Stellantis, General Motors and Ford – which operate North American production lines – until April 2.
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It is at this moment that Trump calls for “reciprocal” prices will take effect to try to match all the prices and trade measures imposed by other countries.
Trump said he was not trying to extend this exemption for cars beyond that date.
“Most prices take place on April 2,” said Trump before signing orders. “And then we have temporary and small, relatively small, although it is a lot of money with Mexico and Canada.”
The temporary break does not include steel and aluminum products, which will be placed under a separate set of prices planned to come into force next week.
Trump’s Trump’s pricing threats, tariff threats, have disrupted the financial markets, lowered consumer confidence and wrapped many companies in an uncertain atmosphere that could delay hiring and investment. But the president said that economic uncertainty did not influence his evolving exemptions.
“I do not even look at the market because in the long term, the United States will be very strong with what is going on now,” he told journalists at the Oval Office after signing orders.
Canada retreated with a first cycle of prices over $ 30 billion in American products, while the provinces have drawn American alcohols from stores and canceled American commercial contracts, among other measures.
Earlier Thursday, Trudeau told journalists that Canada will not raise its reprisal prices until Trump fully lifts his prices.
“We will not go back from our response rates until the unjustified American prices on Canadian products are lifted,” he said.
The federal government was to impose a second cycle of prices on $ 125 billion in American goods in three weeks if Trump’s prices persist. These will now be delayed until April 2 “while we continue to work for the withdrawal of all prices”, ” Leblanc said in an article on X.
By announcing the one month break for Mexico, Trump said that he and Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum “worked together, together” on border security problems, including fentanyl, which Trump frequently quoted for his prices in Canada and Mexico.
The prices were imposed under emergency powers granted to the president in a national emergency, which Trump declared at the borders of migrants and fentanyl flows.
Trump administration accused Canada not to do enough to solve these same border security problems, despite $ 1.3 billion in federal government’s investments, the appointment of a fentanyl Tsar and data showing fentanyl crises on the Canadian-American border continued to fall in hyperal last year.
Trudeau and Trump discussed the fentanyl issue during a one -hour phone call on Wednesday by an hour, which the Prime Minister described to journalists on Thursday as “colorful”.
“I can confirm that we will continue to be in a trade war launched by the United States in the predictable future,” he said.
Earlier, Trump accused Trudeau on social networks “of using the tariff problem, which he largely caused, in order to head to the Prime Minister”. Trudeau should resign after a new liberal chief is elected on Sunday by the party, and he confirmed on Thursday that there would be no remainder as the guardian Prime Minister after the election of his successor.
The provinces, on the other hand, began to deploy new reprisals. Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford announced Thursday Its province would add an export tax of 25% to the electricity sold In American states, and British Columbia, David Eby, said that American commercial vehicles traveling through the province in Alaska would face a new toll.
“The prices are on, the prices are disabled, the threats, the canceled orders, set up – it is a deliberate tactic to weaken our determination,” Eby told journalists in VictoriaShortly after the announcement of Trump’s exemptions for Canada.
“We are going to make sure that the Americans understand how upset we are, how unified we are, to what extent we are committed to working as a country to defend ourselves in our own independence from our two feet, and I say that we do not let go before the president withdrew the threat from the table.”
Foreign Minister Melanie Joly An interview with CNN on Thursday.
“We have been shown too much respect by the Trump administration at this stage: calling us the 51st state, calling our” governor “of our Prime Minister,” she said.
“Canadians have enough.”
– With files from Uday Rana and Simon Little de Global, the Associated Press and Reuters