Trump pauses tariffs on Canada for at least 30 days

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Trump pauses tariffs on Canada for at least 30 days, Trudeau says​

Published Mon, Feb 3 20254:41 PM ESTUpdated 3 Min Ago

Dan Mangan@_DanMangan

Key Points

• President Donald Trump agreed to pause the implementation of planned tariffs on imports from Canada for at least 30 days, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.
• The pause was announced hours after Trump said he would pause tariffs on imports from Mexico for one month.
• Trump on Saturday said he would impose 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada, and 10% tariffs on goods imported from China.

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looks on during a press conference while responding to U.S. President Donald Trump’s orders to impose 25% tariffs on Canadian imports, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada February 1, 2025.
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President Donald Trump on Monday agreed to pause the implementation of planned tariffs on imports from Canada for at least 30 days, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.

The pause was announced in a tweet by Trudeau hours after Trump and Mexico’s president said Trump would pause for one month planned tariffs on imports from Mexico.


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

Trudeau in his tweet said, “I just had a good call with President Trump,” and suggested that the pause on tariffs was in response to Canada’s agreement to target the flow of the deadly opioid fentanyl across the border into the United States.

Trump’s pause on tariffs on Mexican imports likewise came after Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said she would immediately send 10,000 soldiers to the U.S. border to prevent drug trafficking, fentanyl in particular, from Mexico.

Trudeau said Canada had made new commitments “to appoint a Fentanyl Czar,” among other measures.

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


Trump soon after followed up with a post on Truth Social.

“Canada has agreed to ensure we have a secure Northern Border, and to finally end the deadly scourge of drugs like Fentanyl that have been pouring into our Country, killing hundreds of thousands of Americans, while destroying their families and communities all across our Country.”

“I am very pleased with this initial outcome, and the Tariffs announced on Saturday will be paused for a 30 day period to see whether or not a final Economic deal with Canada can be structured,” Trump wrote. “FAIRNESS FOR ALL!”

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https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/03/trump-canada-tariffs-trudeau.html

 

[christopher]

Negotiations are working out?

 

[christopher]

US & Canada Unveil Possible Blueprint For Post-Tariff Partnership To 'Disrupt & Dismantle' CCP-Fueled Fentanyl Crisis​

Monday, Feb 03, 2025 - 11:45 AM
President Donald Trump announced weekend tariffs on goods from Mexico, Canada, and China, stating that these tariffs are necessary to "protect" Americans from "illegal aliens and drugs, including deadly fentanyl," asserting that this "extraordinary threat constitutes a national emergency under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act."

By 10:23 ET, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum capitulated to Trump's tariffs and decided to deploy 10,000 National Guard troops immediately to the Mexico-US border to halt the flow of fentanyl and illegal aliens.

Financial markets bounced on Sheinbaum's headlines after a gloomy red morning across equities, currencies, bonds, and crypto.



As for America's neighbor to the north, far-left Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has not yet capitulated. In fact, Trudeau has promised retaliatory tariffs of $100 billion.

Goldman's chief economist Jan Hatzius has been entirely correct about the multi-day trade war: "The Canada- and Mexico-focused tariffs are likely to be short-lived."



Whether Canada will capitulate remains to be seen, but if and when it does, a joint US-Canada strategy to combat transnational organized crime, money laundering, and terror financing networks will be essential, according to a new report published by Garry Clement, Michel Juneau-Katsuya, and Dean Baxendale of Optimum Publishing International. The Canadian independent publisher and research firm specializes in geopolitics, espionage, and intelligence.

"This strategy outlines a joint US-Canada plan to systematically disrupt and dismantle transnational organized crime networks, including drug cartels, money laundering operations, cybercrime, and state-sponsored illicit financial flows. It integrates border security, intelligence, military, law enforcement, and political oversight with private sector engagement to address vulnerabilities in the economic system," the authors of the report titled "US/Canada Joint Drug and Money Laundering Task Force" said.

The key pillars of the joint strategy align with Trump's national emergency under IEEPA to secure both northern and southern borders and stop the flow of illegal aliens and fentanyl.

Here's more color on the strategy:

Developing a comprehensive strategy to combat the CRINKS Alliance—China, Iran, Russia, North Korea—along with Mexican and Colombian drug cartels and terrorist proxy groups operating within the United States and Canada is an urgent necessity. This policy document focuses on disrupting the financial backbone—better known as the illicit trade and financial ecosystem—that fuels their operations.

No single country can tackle this threat alone, yet Canada has failed to step up. Through political indifference and ambivalence, these criminal and state-backed networks have deeply embedded themselves within Canadian civil society. While the United States faces its own challenges, bipartisan efforts in Congress have made strides in isolating and targeting these threats. President Biden has signaled that this is a national security priority. In contrast, Canada's political leadership has maintained a laissez-faire approach, neglecting the threats emanating from the People's Republic of China (PRC) and other hostile actors for over three decades.

Both of Canada's main political parties have exploited diaspora communities for electoral gains while ignoring the presence of malign actors within these groups—individuals who advance the interests of foreign states engaged in an escalating hybrid war against the West. As a result, Canada has become a safe haven for espionage, human smuggling, and organized crime.

When scrutiny is applied to individuals within Chinese Canadian or immigrant communities who engage in espionage, influence operations, or criminal activity, Beijing's "magic weapon" of disinformation is deployed. The CCP and its allies swiftly label any investigation or reporting as "anti-Asian hate" or "racism," a narrative that the media have amplified to stifle legitimate concerns about Beijing's United Front Work Department (UFWD) and its ties to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the Ministry of State Security (MSS).

Let's rewind to April 2024, when we covered the House Select Committee on China that revealed the Chinese Communist Party used tax rebates to subsidize the manufacturing and exporting of fentanyl chemicals to North America.

The report stated, "Through subsidies, grants, and other incentives, the PRC harms Americans while enriching PRC companies."



Recall this report in August: Chinese Narcos In Toronto Run "Command & Control" Fentanyl Laundering Network Used In TD Bank Case: US Investigator.



A coordinated North American strategy is essential to dismantling the command-and-control centers of these transnational organized crime networks that have fueled the drug death crisis in America, killing 100,000 folks (many working-age or military-age men and women) per year. This is hybrid warfare by Beijing - and folks have to start asking why progressive leadership allowed this to happen.

US & Canada Unveil Possible Blueprint For Post-Tariff Partnership To 'Disrupt & Dismantle' CCP-Fueled Fentanyl Crisis | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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Whether far-left progressive Trudeau concedes to Trump's tariffs and works with the US to address the drug epidemic remains to be seen. Mexico appears to have joined Trump.

 

[Sheetmetalfab]

Poor Liberals.

They hardly get a chance to rehearse and spew their talking points 2-3 times and the situation is already wrapped up.

Win after win after win.

 

[christopher]

 

[couch]

A few numbers for perspective