Trump pauses tariffs on Canada imports for 30 days after doing the same for Mexico

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNBC

Published Mon, Feb 3 2025 4:41 PM EST Updated 25 Min Ago


President Donald Trump on Monday agreed to pause the implementation of planned U.S. 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. In both cases, the pauses came after those countries agreed to take steps toward preventing the trafficking of the deadly opioid fentanyl into the United States.

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 on Saturday warned that his country would implement a 25% tariff against $155 billion in U.S. goods in retaliation for Trump’s tariffs.

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

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This was probably the plan all along per that Reuters article and since it leaked, they had to scramble...

Article updated.

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

Published Mon, Feb 3 2025 4:41 PM EST Updated 2 Min Ago


President Donald Trump on Monday agreed to pause the implementation of planned tariffs on imports 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.

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[Docreed2003]

1. So we're in for the same kabuki theater bs that we witnessed during Trumps first term

Greeeeaaat. Who could have predicted this?

[Joe Cool]

2. Markets tanking freaked Trump out

Trump knows if he loses the investor class, he’s toast.

[RussBLib]

7. If Trump thought the markets would accept and embrace mega-tariffs...

......he's even dumber than I thought. His stupidity knows no bounds.

https://russblib.blogspot.com

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. I think he planned this little retreat. Keeps it in news. I expect he will actually impose tariffs in a month

He will make other demands, keep upping the ante like his fake "Art of the Deal".

It seems like banking is the next thing he's going to try to get. Canada has strict banking and bank licensing regulations, so we haven't had the US kind of big bank failures and bailouts.

[Marthe48]

32. I think you're right

Imposing tariffs, pausing them, will be such an attention getter. I expect lunatic threats the rest of the time felon traitor is the figurehead. Not just everyone in America, but everyone in the world will have to watch him smear shit on the wall.
Will there be incremental damage? I read that China made a deal with another country to buy soy beans. I read that Doug Ford in Canada will not allow companies in Ontario to make new deals with U.S. companies. (I might not be entirely accurate on the details of the stories) Will actions like these be reversible? Are the tariffs on China and Venezuala still in place? Will traitor felon use tariffs as a cudgel on other countries? Will the EU ally itself with more relaiable and stable trading partners, such as BRICS? Do other countries really want to bob and weave as traitor felon flails his way around the ecomonic arena?
As for the rest of us, try to stock up when the felon is eying other ways to create havoc. I feel little less threatened knowing I have a store of dried goods is a good anti-anxiety remedy.
This is a ridiculous situation.

[Bengus81]

41. And those with lots of cash bought low yesterday,watch how much the DOW jumps upward today

Make a shit load of profit and dump your shares. Rinse and repeat.

Let me guess, P2025 also wants to do a Bush Jr and reduce the capital gains tax to zero.

[D. Spaulding]

3. They give him these easy victories

and just embolden him to continue this reckless strategy. Canada already implemented major border changes and increased funding in December. Why doesn't Trudeau emphasis that and quit letting Trump make him look weak?

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Remember that Trudeau is on his way out after announcing that he was stepping down

Who have been become the "powerhouses" are the Provincial leaders (and the ones running for party leader).

[Ohioboy]

4. Just as he did with Columbia, The Orange Sphincter is claiming victory

He's claiming he got what he wanted from Canada because they've agreed to help keep fentanyl from crossing the northern border.
Sounds like Canada called his bluff and he backed down to me.

[NoonTimeRag]

5. I'm hearing

Canada has folded on a lot of things and Trump pretty much got what he wanted using economic force here. If so that's why he did this.

[Prairie Gates]

8. Oh is that what you're hearing? Like what things? You're hearing a lot of things?

[NoonTimeRag]

12. This was just a distraction

To get what he wanted with other nations. The real focus is on immigrants and slashing the federal government.

[Prairie Gates]

14. Yeah, OK buddy

[johnnyfins]

29. I hear Truth Social is nice, too.

[Carlitos Brigante]

13. I heard that he's a moron who thinks of himself as some sort of gangster. He's

also, a rapist who's totally into his own daughter. So, there's that. Worls leaders know that if they stroke his ego a little bit they can manipulate him.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. On which site did you find that talking point? I think I know the kind. . . . . nt

[angrychair]

28. The AP? CNN? MSNBC?

Those websites?
Here is the AP link: https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-sheinbaum-trudeau-017efa8c3343b8d2a9444f7e65356ae9

This totally leaves the reader with the impression that Canada made serious concessions.

Sorry, I'm not buying this bullshit that they had to do it. Tell him to get fucked and call his bluff on Tariffs.
The moment is gone and because he only paused it he will be able to keep squeezing them for concessions and they will keep being cowards and giving into him

[Bernardo de La Paz]

31. It's a right wing talking point wherever it is found.

Don't worry, Canada is ready for tariffs at any instant. Yes, I expect tRump to play it out for a long time. He likes to keep it in the news and seems really determined to bring in tariffs all over the place.

What was agreed to was what Canada began doing in December.

[moonshinegnomie]

20. canada agreed to do what they said they'd do last month

the fat turd got played for a fool
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2024/12/the-government-of-canadas-border-plan-significant-investments-to-strengthen-border-security-and-our-immigration-system.html

[travelingthrulife]

35. Same as Mexico

Did he also ask for fewer border troops from Canada?

[Javaman]

10. the orange asshole blinked.

he thought he could just wave his hand and the world would follow.

fucking moron.

[groundloop]

11. tRump couldn't give a rats ass about drugs - he pardoned Ross Ulbricht who was convicted for selling drugs online

Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 for selling dangerous narcotics and money laundering. He was serving a life sentence until tRump pardoned him.

Keep reminding all of your magat acquaintances of that fact when they fawn over tRump's "accomplishments".

[travelingthrulife]

36. He has a major ketamine addict in charge of firing everybody in government

Maybe Musk won't be able to get his next government handout if he fires everyone responsible for producing it.

[purr-rat beauty]

15. ok, so let's say Mexico and Canada take measures...

...to stem the flow of fentanyl from coming over the border, what about U.S. ports of entry? Why are they never mentioned? We know damn well that drugs are smuggled via ship/jet - commercial or private but never do we hear how the gov't will approach that.

[Tarzanrock]

17. The Turd's foolish "tariffs" bluff ended his political honeymoon and squandered his political capital.

Of course, the Shitgibbon "folded" his cards in Canada as well. The Turd had no choice but to ignominiously fold his tariff bluff cards. So much for his fucked-up economic "tariffs" bluff. Now, the Turd is the laughingstock of the entire world as no one is going to be "bluffed" again by the Turd. Xi and the Chinese Communists are laughing their asses off at the buffoonish Turd. Maybe, China will give him (or his daughter) another meaningless Chinese "copyright" to soothe the Turd's "feelings?"
The Turd's insane economic behavior has now tagged that economic albatross to his face. He now owns whatever happens to the U.S. economy. He can't blame Hillary or Obama or Biden or Kamala anymore -- it's now his untrained and uncontrollable puppy which is now pissing all over the American carpeting. Even his whacko cult now knows, beyond any doubt, that he is the owner of this economic albatross -- and it is going to get worse for him -- a lot fucking worse!

[birdographer]

24. I was fairly with you through this post

until you got to his cult knowing he is a weak toddler. Oh, no, we have many months left till his cult even begins to grasp who they voted for. Keep in mind that they are getting NO information regarding the responses of Canada and Mexico, his negotiations with them—all they are hearing is that he is their mob boss Dear Leader and Savior and is putting the rest of the world in its place. They don’t know what tariffs are. They have no idea how threatened our economy is. They are wandering around in a fog of Donny fairy dust, thinking that all is well now that their Savior is in place. It will be a long time before they even begin to understand.

[LauraInLA]

18. So with Mexico he announced they'd agreed to surge troops to their border, etc.

What did he announce that Canada has “given” him?

Sorry — I will look this up, but I thought someone might already have the answer.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. It's kabuki theater

Mexico ALREADY surged troops while Biden was in office and Trudeau sent out something on Xitter (it was in the OP article but I didn't include it there or in the OP comments as DU hates them) regarding what their plans were -

Link to tweet

Justin Trudeau
@JustinTrudeau
I just had a good call with President Trump. Canada is implementing our $1.3 billion border plan — reinforcing the border with new choppers, technology and personnel, enhanced coordination with our American partners, and increased resources to stop the flow of fentanyl. Nearly 10,000 frontline personnel are and will be working on protecting the border.

In addition, Canada is making new commitments to appoint a Fentanyl Czar, we will list cartels as terrorists, ensure 24/7 eyes on the border, launch a Canada- U.S. Joint Strike Force to combat organized crime, fentanyl and money laundering. I have also signed a new intelligence directive on organized crime and fentanyl and we will be backing it with $200 million.

Proposed tariffs will be paused for at least 30 days while we work together.
4:36 PM · Feb 3, 2025

[LauraInLA]

23. Figured. Just like sending Army to CA to open the faucets. Apparently CA is going to keep on with the

border security plan they’d already begun. And according to CBC, “ The prime minister also made a series of new commitments to Trump, including a promise to appoint a new fentanyl "czar." And he promised to list Mexican cartels, one of the top purveyors of fentanyl and other drugs in Canada and the U.S., as terrorists under Canadian law.

Trudeau said Canada is launching a "Canada-U.S. Joint Strike Force," that will be tasked with combatting organized crime and money laundering — and he's kicking in $200 million in funding to get it off the ground.”

So stupid, especially considering less than 100 pounds came in from Canada last year.

[moonshinegnomie]

19. canada agreed to do what they had already said they were going to do

once again the fat turd got played for a fool

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2024/12/the-government-of-canadas-border-plan-significant-investments-to-strengthen-border-security-and-our-immigration-system.html

[tanyev]

22. I bet Canadians will still boycott as much as they can.

They’re done with Donny.

[birdographer]

25. They took US alcohol off the shelves, some amount in the $billions

They can cut the power to the state of Maine. I think Trudeau is trying to bend a knee to donny just to try to keep the total destruction of their trade and their economy to a minimum. In other words, he is thinking of his people, his citizens, his country, and what is best for them, even if he has to swallow his pride to do it.

[RhapsodyFav]

26. It was a SCAM

Some kind of distraction or ego stroking. And I really wonder if the SEC is going to investigate all the short selling during this time period?

[travelingthrulife]

37. Are you kidding me?

They are all soulless cult members. They are on board with the dissolution of the united States government.

[underpants]

27. He's negotiating with himself.

This is embarrassing

[quakerboy]

30. those were always, I think, distractions

News grabbers to keep people from focusing musk and his nominees are doing.

[travelingthrulife]

38. A ketamine addict and 5 kids are taking down our government.

[Footay]

33. Completely different take in Mexico

Currently in Mexico on vacation. The news here is focused on the flow of guns into Mexico from US. Funny how that’s not being mentioned in the US news probably because it would be considered gun control. Not sure exactly what he agreed to.

[BumRushDaShow]

34. The CNBC story did provide President Sheinbaum's quote about guns

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143387505

From CNBC's article -

She also wrote, “The United States is committed to working to prevent the trafficking of high-powered weapons to Mexico.”

AND Mexico's lawsuit against the gun manufacturers here has been in the news as the SCOTUS will be reviewing -

Supreme Court will weigh Mexico’s $10 billion lawsuit against U.S. gun makers

[travelingthrulife]

39. Trump lied and said he would help with gun control at the border.

He might actually be interested in doing this though since a dictator cannot allow citizens to have guns that might point at him.

[yardwork]

42. I read that Trump's promise about controlling the guns was omitted from the WH transcript.

I think that's why the news didn't report it at first. Nobody knew about it at first.

[ananda]

40. Is that half a blink?

???