Trump Pauser Customs on Canada for at least 30 days, says Trudeau

President Donald Trump accepted on Monday to break the implementation of scheduled US tariffs on Canada imports for at least 30 days, said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

The break was announced in a tweet of Trudeau hours after Trump and Mexico’s president said Trump would break for a month scheduled tariffs on imports from Mexico.

In both cases, the breaks came after these countries agreed to take steps towards preventing trade in the deadly opioid fentanyl into the United States.

Trump on Saturday said he would impose 25% duties on goods from Mexico and Canada, and 10% duties on goods imported from China. Trump had also planned to impose a 10% duty on energy resources from Canada.

Trudeau warned on Saturday that his country would implement a 25% duty against $ 155 billion in US goods in return for Trump’s duty.

But in a tweet Monday announcing the break, Trudeau wrote, “I just had a good call with President Trump.”

Trudeau said Canada had filed new obligations “to appoint a fentanyl -czar.”

“Canada implements our $ 1.3 billion border plan – to strengthen the limit of new choppers, technology and staff, improved coordination with our US partners and increased resources to stop the flow of Fentanyl,” the prime minister wrote. “Nearly 10,000 front line staff are working and will work to protect the limit.”

“Suggested tariffs will be paused for at least 30 days while we work together,” Trudeau wrote.

Canada had detailed that the border plan on an official web page on December 18 – six weeks before Trump announced customs.

Trump in a truth wrote on Monday, “Canada has agreed to make sure we have a safe northern border, and finally to end the deadly scourge of drugs like Fentanyl that have poured into our country and killed hundreds of thousands of Americans while destroying their families and communities everywhere in our country.

“I am very pleased with this initial result and the tariffs announced on Saturday will be paused for a period of 30 days to see if a final financial agreement with Canada can be structured,” Trump wrote. “Fairness for everyone!”

Earlier Monday, Trump paused tariffs on Mexico imports after the country’s president Claudia Sheinbaum said she would immediately send 10,000 soldiers to her northern border to tribe of fentanyl shipments to the United States.

The vast majority of fentanyl seized at US borders comes from Mexico.

By 2024, more than 21,100 pounds of fentanyl were seized by US authorities on the border with Mexico compared to only approx. 43 pounds seized at the Canadian border.