Prime Minister Justin Trudeau only 36 hours after pledging to lead a Team Canada fight against American tariffs yesterday offered numerous concessions in exchange for a 30-day reprieve from U.S. President Donald Trump. No legal text of an agreement was detailed.
“Proposed tariffs will be paused for at least 30 days while we work together,” Trudeau said in a statement. He did not elaborate.
The concessions came seven hours before a U.S. deadline to impose 10 percent tariffs on Canadian oil, natural gas, hydroelectricity, coal and uranium and 25 percent on other exports. Trudeau’s cabinet on Sunday had detailed an introductory list of retaliatory tariffs on $30 billion worth of U.S. imports from automobile tires to fresh fruit.
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