The White House says

The White House said on Friday that the deadline for US President Donald Trump on the tariff is still standing on the first of February, despite previous reports, on the contrary.

“I was only with the president in the Oval Office, and I can confirm that he became tomorrow, on the deadline that President Trump put in a statement several weeks ago, he continues,” White House press secretary Caroline Levitte said at a press conference.

“The president will run a 25 percent tariff on Mexico, a 25 percent tariff in Canada and a 10 percent tariff in China.”

The comments came after Reuters, citing sources familiar with the planning, that Trump was planning to announce the definitions This will start on March 1.

Reuters sources, who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak publicly about this, said they had no details about the final tariff rate, but they indicated that a tram on imports from both countries on Saturday.

“I saw this (Reuters) report, which is wrong,” Levitte said.

Separately, the administration official told Reuters that the president was reviewing the tariff plans, which could allow some exemptions. However, any exemptions will be “low and far apart.

Levitt did not provide details of any possible exemptions on Friday.

“I have no update or readings for the exemptions. But these definitions will be for general consumption in about 24 hours, so that you can read them after that.”

The decline to the deadline added another layer of uncertainty to the tense conversation between Canada and the United States-a complex political issue that carries countless people on both sides of the border.

The decision to impose a customs tariff wears serious harm to both diplomatic and economic relations between the two countries, which are usually close. There are great effects on major industries, such as energy and cars, which have long flourished in a variety of free trade agreements.

If it is Ottawa Discuss with its customs duties As I promisedIt will be a commercial war, which may mean high prices and job losses at the country level.

CBC News called the Prime Minister’s Office to comment.

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Trillion

The commercial relationship between Canada and the United States is enormous, in a moderate phrase. Almost $ 3.6 billion of goods went back and forth on the border Every day in 2023According to Ottawa, it made the relationship equal to a trillion dollars per year.

Among all the goods that Canada export to other countries, more than three quarters go to its southern neighbor. Car and cultivation sectors are, but oil and gas are leading the package: approximately 80 percent of Canadian oil and 60 percent of natural gas goes to the United States.

This step also means that Canadian companies will have difficulty selling them American importers, because these importers will have to pay the definitions. Canadian exporters will need to reduce prices, sacrifice profit, compensate tax, or try to find a group of new buyers to compensate for the loss of American business.

On Friday, Levitte said that Trump was moving for definitions against Canada, Mexico and China because “the fentian who was seized on the southern border in the past two years alone had the ability to kill tens of millions of Americans.”

About 108,000 people died in the United States due to an overdose of the drug in 2022, according to L. US centers to combat and prevent diseases (CDC). The organization said that the number of people who died from overdoses of drugs in the United States was declining, and retreated About 14 percent From June 2023 to June 2024.

Doug Ford, Prime Minister of Ontario, warned that the customs tariff may cost Up to half a million jobs in his boycottWhere the spontaneous automatic assembly industry is closely related to the American Newfondland and Prime Minister of Labrador Andrew Fawry if Trump moves It can cost thousands of jobs thereWhile Prime Minister David Eibi said that the long -term trade war may cost a cost Almost $ 70 billion in economic activity Outside the West by 2028.

Trump sees the customs tariff – taxes on any country on other foreign goods – as a way to protect American manufacturing and strengthen the wider economy. He repeatedly said to foreign countries that pushes the customs tariff when it is actually pushed by American importers.

Those companies Then these costs are usually passed to its customers in the form of higher prices – this is why economists are warned In the end, the audience that pays the price may be In the war of tariffs.

When Trump Initially threatened to impose definitionsHe said they will be in response to what Canada and Mexico called illegal drugs and migrants entering the United States, although officials said Less than one per cent of fentanel or immigrants entering the United States It comes from Canada.

However, the Canadian government gathered together A $ 1.3 billion plan to enhance security on the border In December to try to satisfy the incoming president. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is in the last months of power, promised promise “Strong and fast and” very strong “measures If Trump has fulfilled his threats.

Trump also said the definitions are a way to pressure the trade deficit of the United States with Canada, which he described incorrectly as support. He also said he would do Use the economic power to convert Canada into the 51st country.

For decades, most of the goods were flowing free of customs tariffs between Canada, Mexico and the United States due to free trade agreements, the most recent of which was the Canada and Mexico (CUSMA) agreement and its predecessor, the North North American Trade Convention (NAFTA). Even when the American definitions are valid for other countries, they are often far from 25 percent – 2.5 percent on passenger cars or Six percent on golf shoesFor example.

On Sunday, Colombia agreed to accept flights carrying migrants who were deported from the United States after Trump threatened the strike of this country with a set of its definitions to stop these flights at first. The confrontation was a warning of the US President’s willingness to punish countries that interfere with his plans.