President Donald Trump will pause extra rates Canadian import 30 days after a phone call with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who made some concessions to temporarily avert the taxes.
Trump and Trudeau spoke by telephone by telephone on Monday, hours before additional 25% rates had to take effect on Canadian goods that entered the United States. In a post on X, Trudeau said that Canada will implement a $ 1.3 billion border plan and designate a fentanyl.
Moreover, Canada will strengthen its border With new helicopters, technology, staff and improved coordination with the American authorities. He added that nearly 10,000 employees are and will work.
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President Donald Trump (L) talks to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during the plenary session of NATO top in the Grove Hotel in Watford, northeast of London on December 4, 2019. (Nicholas Kamm)
“We will mention cartels as terrorists, take care of 24/7 eyes on the border, launch a Canada-US Joint Strike Force to combat organized crime, Fentanyl and money laundering,” Trudeau wrote. “I have also signed a new intelligence directive on organized crime and fentanyl and we will support it with $ 200 million.”
“Proposed rates will be paused for at least 30 days while we work together,” he added.
Trump has a long time Said that Canada and Mexico did not succeed in preventing the flow of illegal migrants and drugs, in particular Fentanyl, from those countries to the US, moreover, Trump claims that the US has subsidized $ 200 million annually.
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Fentanyl seized in Nages, Arizona. In October 2022, border days and officers grabbed more than 1,900 pounds of the illegal drugs. (CBP)
“We have to protect Americans, and it is my duty as a president to guarantee the safety of everyone,” Trump said on Saturday, when he imposed the rates. “I made a promise on my campaign to stop the flow of illegal alien beings and drugs to flow across our borders, and Americans voted overwhelming.”
Hours for his phone call with Trudeau, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she would use 10,000 troops in the border between the US and Mexico about tariff threats.
Trump has promised to impose a rate of 25% on all Canadian and Mexican goods, as well as a rate of 10% on Canadian energy; And a rate of 10% on all goods that enter the US from China. The rates on Canada and China would take effect on Tuesday at midnight.
Trucks go over the Blue Water Bridge at the border crossing with the US in Sarnia, Ontario, on February 3, 2025. The US President Donald Trump said he will discuss the punitive rates he has on Canada and Mexico with both countries on Monday, then claim that Americans can feel economic “pain” of the duties of 25 percent, but that it will “be worth the price”. (Photo by Geoff Robins / AFP) (Photo by Geoff Robins / AFP via Getty Images) (AP)
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