President Donald Trump has paused tariffs on Mexico and Canada after each country agreed to send 10,000 troops to the border to stop migrants and drugs entering the US. Trump and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum struck a deal on Monday to delay his 25% tariff for one month. Sheinbaum vowed to help ‘reinforce’ the border between the US and Mexico by sending National Guard troops ‘immediately’.

‘It was a very friendly conversation wherein she agreed to immediately supply 10,000 Mexican Soldiers on the Border separating Mexico and the United States,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social of his communication with Sheinbaum. ‘These soldiers will be specifically designated to stop the flow of fentanyl, and illegal migrants into our Country.’. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video.

Up Next. Sheinbaum also called it a ‘very respectful’ conversation and said she expects the agreement to bring ‘good results’. The US will work with Mexico to prevent guns from being trafficked to the south. During the delay, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Treasury Scott Bassent and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick will speak with Mexican officials to try to come to a permanent deal.

The agreement comes two days after Trump announced a 25% tariff on Mexico and Canada and an additional 10% against China. Tariffs on Canada and China are still set to go into effect on Tuesday via an executive order to be signed by Trump. Trump on Monday accused Canada of treating the US badly before a conversation with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was scheduled at 3pm. Trudeau on Saturday evening stated that Canada would respond by imposing 25% tariffs on US goods. A senior government official in Canada on Monday did not see a short-term deal panning out between the two countries as it did with Mexico.

But hours before the tariffs were due to go into effect, Canada secured its own 30-day delay. ‘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,’ wrote Trudeau on X (formerly Twitter) late afternoon Monday.

‘Nearly 10,000 frontline personnel are and will be working on protecting the border.’. Canada has agreed to create a fentanyl czar role and committed 200million Canadian dollars to gather intelligence on the drug trade. The neighboring countries narrowly avoided a trade war. Trump is using tariffs to pressure the three countries into restrict migrants and fentanyl from crossing into the US, and insisted that they will not drive up prices for Americans. He claims that other countries will front the costs, but that has not been proven.

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