The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, revealed on Monday (03.02.2025) that after talking with the US president, Donald Trump, USA, will suspend for 30 days the implementation of 25 %tariffs, whose entry into force was planned For tomorrow.
In a message on social networks, Trudeau declared that Canada will appoint a “tsar” against fentanil Joint force Canada-Eeuu to combat organized crime, fentanyl and money laundering. “
The Canadian leader, who described as “good” the conversation with Trump, added that he has signed “a new intelligence guideline on organized crime and fentanyl” that will have associated funds of 200 million Canadian dollars (about 136 million US dollars ).
“The proposed tariffs will be slow for at least 30 days while we work together,” Trudeau concluded.
The temporary cessation of tariffs occurs a few hours before the United States began the application of 10 % taxes to Canadian oil and gas purchases 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 very early conversation, 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, Trump agreed with the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, the pause of the tariffs that USA was going to start applying to Mexican products as of Tuesday.
The US president made the decision after the Mexican president promised to send 10,000 soldiers to the United States to combat drug trafficking and people.
GS (AFP, EFE, Reuters)
