Trump and Trudeau calling about import duties, large car manufacturers get a month delay

US President Donald Trump has postponed the inserted import tariffs for a number of car manufacturers in Mexico and Canada with one month. The White House announced this on Wednesday evening, after Trump called Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for almost an hour.

« We are going to exempt a month for all cars that enter through (the free trade agreement between the US, Canada and Mexico), » Trump said in a statement that a press officer of Washington read. That reports CNN. Trump is said to have spoken with 'three large' car dealers, Stellantis, Ford and General Motors, who are still exempt from an increase in import rates.

Trump and Trudeau talked each other in particular about the taxes, international press agencies reported. In addition, Trump accused the Canadian Prime Minister not to do enough about the agreed border control against drug smuggling and migrants. « He said it is going better, but I said: that's not good enough, » Trump said on his Platform Truth Social. He therefore believes that Trudeau himself is responsible for the taxes.

Trump launched a new trade war on Tuesday import tariffs to be imposed Three largest trading partners on Washington's: 25 percent for Canada and Mexico and 20 percent for China. This led to immediate retaliation measures from those three countries, so that the financial markets ended up in a downward spiral. The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday, after the telephone conversation with Trump, not to be willing to lift the Canadian retaliation taxes against the US.

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