Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau reached an agreement and the United States suspended the tariffs to Canada for 30 days
The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeaurevealed on Monday that after talking with Donald TrumpUnited States will suspend for 30 days the implementation of 25% tariffswhose entry was scheduled for Tuesday.
In a message on his social networks, Trudeau published: “I just had a good call with President Trump. Canada is applying our border plan of 1.3 billion dollars: reinforcement of the border with new helicopters, technology and staffimprovement of coordination with our US partners and increased resources to stop the flow of Fentanyl. Almost 10,000 frontline troops work and work on the protection of the border”
“In addition, Canada has pledged to name a tsar of the fentanil Canada-United States together to combat organized crime, fentanyl and money laundering. I have also signed a new intelligence directive on organized crime and fentanyl, and we will support it with 200 million dollars”The Canadian said.
Meanwhile, he concluded: “The proposed tariffs will be suspended for at least 30 days while we work together”
Trump confirmed the news and was “very satisfied” that Trudeau has agreed to harden border measures against the flow of the fentanyl drug.
“Canada has agreed to ensure that we have a safe northern border Already finally end with the mortal drug scourge such as the fentanyl that has been entering our country, killing hundreds of thousands of Americans and destroying families and communities throughout the country, ”Trump said in his social network.
The temporary suspension of tariffs occurs a few hours before the United States began the application of taxes of 10% oil and gas Canadians and 25% to the rest of the imports.
Canada announced on Saturday that, in retaliation for tariffs, it would also apply from Tuesday 25% to 30,000 million dollars of US exports in the country.
The Canadian government had also scheduled to apply the same tariffs to another 125,000 million American imports as of February 25.
Trudeau and Trump held a conversation first hours today in which they agreed to re -talk at 15.00 local (20.00 GMT) to try to reach an agreement that suspended the tariffs.
Before the second call occurred, Trump also agreed with the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaumthe suspension of the tariffs that the US was going to start applying to Mexican products from Tuesday.
The US president decided to suspend tariffs to Mexico after the Mexican president promised to send 10,000 soldiers to the United States to combat drug trafficking and people.
