The US administration on March 6 delayed for nearly one month his 25% tariffs on a wide range of goods from both Canada and Mexico, the latest twist in its fast-shifting trade policy. The exemption covers Canadian and Mexican goods under the North American trade pact.
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00:00The U.S. administration on Thursday delayed for nearly one month 25% tariffs on a wide
00:07range of goods from both Canada and Mexico, the latest twist in the U.S. tariff war.
00:13The exemption covers Canadian and Mexican goods under the North American Trade Pact.
00:21In a press conference, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum read out the announcement by her
00:26American counterpart Donald Trump that he posted on his social media account.
00:56She said the pause of tariffs was made possible after the Mexican and U.S. governments worked
01:04together to reduce fentanyl seizures at their border by 41.5% and beef up border patrols.
01:12Trump said he reckoned their positive achievements.
01:43The U.S. imposed the 20-25% tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China after declaring a national
01:50emergency due to deaths from fentanyl overdoses, saying that the drug and its precursor chemicals
01:56make their way from China to the country via Canada and Mexico.
02:01Your foreign affairs minister yesterday called all of this a psychodrama.
02:05How do you characterize it?
02:07Thursday.
02:08Canada has called the shifting situation with tariffs a psychodrama, saying that it
02:14will stand firm as long as the unjustified tariffs remain in place.
02:20As for the border fentanyl, I always say one gram is too much, but we've put over 10,000
02:26personnel on our borders.
02:27We have fixed-winged aircraft, helicopters, everything.
02:32But what he doesn't report is the hundreds of kilos of cocaine that we just apprehended
02:39at our border, just Ontario alone, the opioids, the fentanyl, the guns, the illegals coming
02:44across.
02:45I agree.
02:46Let's tighten up the border.
02:47And we have, actually.
02:48I've sat down personally with the DEA, our federal RCMP.
02:53They're working hand-in-hand with our Canadian border patrol, along with the U.S. border
02:57patrol.
02:58We all agree.
02:59But don't use this as an excuse, because that's all it is.