On Wednesday, when asked at a televised cabinet meeting about the tariffs Trump said, “April 2nd for everything.”
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President Donald Trump said Thursday he plans to impose tariffs on Canada and Mexico starting Tuesday, after saying Wednesday that he planned to delay them until April 2.
Trump, in a Truth Social post, also said he was doubling the 10% universal tariff charged on imports from China.
Trump in the post repeated his rational for the tariffs – that illicit drugs such as fentanyl are being smuggled into the United States at its Canada and Mexico border at “unacceptable levels” and that import taxes would force other countries to crackdown on the trafficking.
