Canada and Mexico Agree to Reinforce their US Borders – Tariffs Delayed 30 Days

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Canada is implementing a $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. Nearly 10,000 frontline personnel are and will be working on protecting the border.

In addition, Canada is making new commitments to appoint a Fentanyl Czar, we will list cartels as terrorists, ensure 24/7 eyes on the border, launch a Canada- U.S. Joint Strike Force to combat organized crime, fentanyl and money laundering. I have also signed a new intelligence directive on organized crime and fentanyl and we will be backing it with $200 million.

Proposed tariffs will be paused for at least 30 days while we work together.

Mexico exports to U.S. as a percentage of GDP: 35%

Canada exports to U.S. as a percentage of GDP: 22%

U.S. exports to Canada as a percentage of GDP: 1.5%

U.S. exports to Mexico as a percentage of GDP: 1.2%

33 thoughts on “Canada and Mexico Agree to Reinforce their US Borders – Tariffs Delayed 30 Days”

  1. If Mexico- Us border is 1900 miles. 10000 personel is about 5,2 person per mile. But if they work 3 shifts that is 1,7 person patrolling per mile and all of them wont patrol so,….
    Night vision not so expensive overall.

    Some of them will be bribed,…

    Even if Us deploys 10000 soldiers on border that is not so expensive. 100 000 per year per soldier and that is about 1 billion in Us dollars + other expenses.

      • As I’ve pointed out elsewhere, the US-Mexico border amounts to 3/8″ per American.

        Admittedly, the border with Canada is quite a bit longer: A whole inch per American!

        The idea that we couldn’t afford to build a border wall was always a lie.

        Israel’s high tech border wall, designed to stop very persistent terror attacks, and detect any crossings, is costing about $475 per inch. (Yeah, that surprised me, too. Expensive!)

        I don’t know about you, but I’d be willing to kick in $660 to completely secure the border.

      • If they want to build it, they should at least make it so it will be hard to cross and climb over. And dont forget about the barbed wire!

        I know in one European country, when the right ones were elected, they put up a fence. Then the lefties came and they dismantled it. Man, if you made it and pay for it dont be so dumb to waste even more money and then remove it, let it be. Leave the fence alone. And now there are lots of indians on the streets and from pakistan.

    • Its less than that. 40 hour work week, out of 168 hours/week.
      It is not cost effective.

      If a farmer in Australia employs an illegal immigrant, they can loose the farm.
      No jobs – no incentive to cross the border.
      That is effective.

      For stopping drugs, you need to first ask yourself why Americans use so many drugs.
      300 overdose deaths / million people, Canada only has 45/million

  2. Just for the hell of it, I thought I’d mention how the defense of North American airspace, actually works. I betcha, lots of Americans are clueless about this (As an American, I know we are clueless about our history, and GOD FORBID!, anyone else’s.) The USA and Canada share equal authority to defend our mutual airspace. Half the time, an American General or Admiral is in charge of the North American Aerospace Defense Command. 50% of the time, it’s a Canadian commander (Canada has a unified military force, so terms like “General, or Admiral”, can be superfluous.) But hell, THEY know who’s in charge…

    This “arrangement” has worked beautifully for many decades. But now, the idiot Trump, is on the precipice of not just f****** up trade relations. but national security situations that have worked so well, since WW2. Didn’t “KNOW” this? Wake up, and notice.

  3. Why are so many commenters complaining about this? Trump used tariffs to get less fentanyl and less illegal immigration into the us. What’s not to like about it?

    The only question is why Canada and Mexico did not perform these measures before Trump… They all seem like nobrainer efforts.

    • I just saw the claim that Canada & Mexico agreed to do the same things they agreed to in a deal with Biden in December 2024, and Trump decided to claim victory.

      • I think the difference is that now they have to, like, ACTUALLY DO THEM. Rather than just agree to and then blow it off.

    • I would be the first to agree that Trump is a master of no-brainer actions that his MAGA flock are certain to enjoy. The fact that less fentanyl is coming down from Canada than being shipped up from the US is not problematic for them. Indeed, both Canada and Mexico had already enacted most of what Trump is presently crowing about. Yes, the danger of more immigrants sneaking in to harvest our crops is a real one. Its is far better to let these crops rot on the ground. Similarly, the danger of a drunk Canadian mistakenly walking into America requires the prompt building of a wall.

      • They may have agreed to them, but they had not actually implemented them. And only a small fraction of the illegal immigrants work I agriculture, a couple percent or so. Of the roughly 11 million that came under Biden.

        But again, why be upset over it? Trade is not destroyed and a couple of concessions have been won for the USA. Both Mexico and Canada caved, and more recently the Panama canal is free to traverse for American ships. What is the problem? How is this a bad outcome?

        • It’s bad because the evil orange man did it and everything the evil orange man does is bad

          Yes, that is the “logic” behind it.

    • If you look a little deeper. You will see that Canada had already promised these changes in December, except for that boss position. If everything was already in place, what’s going on in the political minds in the USA to threaten tariffs when they already had put in place what was required?

  4. Utter nonsense.
    Bane is the last character I would ever associate with Trump.
    Try Big Boss Baby wielding his nuclear super rattler of sulk and tantrum. Geez.
    I respect the notion of skimming tariffs off the reams of fat and liberal-spending excess and disorder and chaos that many of these target countries have — bring them up to our level, they think – make the World Great, they think. But this ‘secure the border’ from nasty drugs and i’ll give you a temporary repireve – whiny garbage.
    The countries of the world have to get their economic and social act together and the US is the key entity to enforce and model that — but this?
    The MAGA red-necks will hang their head – though perhaps the DOGE will bring spending sense back, but?

    • I think it’s more Musk running amok in various agencies, departments, and government offices that is truly surreal and distracting. We are ‘not in Kansas anymore’.

      • My brother (or sister), we’re not in the USA anymore. Thanks to the idiot Trump. I’m old too. But honesty I do care. I care about the stupidly that is considered “cool”, by people who accept “anti-science”, anti-logic as what they believe. This is George Orwell’s 1984 happening now. Just with a slightly different “twist”.

        • You’re invoking 1984 even though Biden was the one to re-create the Ministry of Truth in the form of the Disinformation Governance Board, which was ran by Nina Jankowicz, who praised the fake Steele Dossier while lying about the Hunter Biden laptop claiming it was a forgery created by the Trump campaign.

          We’re really getting fed up with your side always accusing others of what you are guilty of

    • It’s not “whiney garbage” if you f*** up the worlds greatest economy, because you don’t know how it works! The US will “enforce some model”? Great. If we all followed some similar model. Including us. We break the very rules WE put in place? What does that say about the intelligence of the American electorate, who elect people to the highest levels of our government, who couldn’t find their ass with both hands and a guide dog?

      Does not say much, about people who voted for “those” people… Other then, be careful who you vote for, that idiot might win.

      • The voters watched the Biden vs Trump debate and saw who was it that couldn’t find their ass with both hands and a guide dog and it was Biden, who literally was the confused old man who wandered out the elderly care facility.

        This was the very person that your side insisted was more coherent than he ever was.

        You keep calling American voters “stupid” for daring to believe their lying eyes over you.

  5. Economics 101: whenever there is a product with robust demand, a market will spring up to fulfill that demand. Tariffs and border security are irrelevant to this fact. As long as people want to do drugs, the market will deliver drugs to them. People always have, and always will want to alter their consciousness for recreation, stress relief/escape, insight/inspiration, spirituality, etc, etc. They have for thousands of years and will not stop due to prohibition or trade policy.

    Prohibitive strategies will do nothing to improve drug-related harms to society. We have already learned this lesson many times, see alcohol, opium, heroin, and cannabis. The answer is to legalize and regulate drugs. Cut off billions in revenue to criminal organizations overnight. Collect billions in taxes. Plow this money back into education, treatment, and housing the homeless to minimize harm to society.

    What happens when we bankrupt the criminals who peddle drugs? Crime/gang violence goes down. Immigration spurred by cartel violence goes down. Overdoses go down. Prison population goes down. Cops can re-focus efforts on other priorities (de-facto budget increase). Homeless population goes down.

    Unfortunately most are too brainwashed to face this reality, and will gladly allow drugs to be the scapegoat for idiotic policies. This is not the first example and wont be the last.

  6. If you cant compete, raise tariffs. But there is a reason that tariff system was mostly abolished quite some time ago. There is a economical reason for that. Same for mercantilism and communism. Those tariffs look similar to communism, where gov is protecting its companies so state would be self sufficient. We know how communism went and their self sufficiency.
    Now if Ukraine has flat lands and good conditions for farming and Austria has mountains, hills which are not so good for it. So is it smart for Austrians to have super high tariffs to protect local farmers, so they could grow more food in their hills and Ukraine should do something completely else not farming? The most efficient is to reduce tariffs, let the ones who have good conditions for farming grow food and sell it and the one who dont do something else what they are good at and sell that. Not to mention tariff system “help” domestic companies to be even less productive, because tariffs are protecting them.

    • Ah, but you speak logically (even though you speak logically I may not agree with everything you say), at least your a “rational person” Unfortunately today, Trump and his minions, think they “know everything”. Oh, really? IMO, we’re in the most dangerous time in our American nation since the civil war. No s***… Why/How? First, the internet, where everyone has access to VAST amounts of stuff, I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised. With all that “noise”, people get quickly overwhelmed and go into “a huddle”. They don’t embrace what they don’t understand, but embrace what they do, and cling to it like a life raft.

      Yup, the familiar is comforting. Conformity is reassuring. Not asking questions applies to those on the “right wing” today, IMO far more then those at the left end of the political spectrum. The right, are “victims of, uhm, whatever,,,” “Those people, that person, that party, phases of the moon, for all I know:. The right needs to assign blame, the left tries to solve problems. Understand, many of “the lefts” solutions to our problems, I DO NOT agree with.

      But know this. I appreciate people trying to solve problems, then just bitch and moan about them. Questions?

  7. If I may, a little history please? The “great depression” did not “happen” due to the 10/1920 stock market crash. Actually, the markets recovered somewhat weeks, and a couple of months after that event. But Congress put in place the Smoot-Halley tariffs (my spelling sucks). This made foreign products effectively unaffordable to most Americans. What do you think other governments did in response? They put tariffs on our exports, making them unaffordable to anyone overseas, who might want to buy them. Well, f****** DUH!!

    The great depression was due to a crash in trade, NOT the stock market. That “crash” in trade was self-inflicted, due to non-sensical, reactionary actions. History repeats, particularly with people with the insight, of a brick…

    • Are you really saying that decentralized media is inherently more dangerous and prone to manipulation than the highly consolidated traditional sources?

      As for tariffs; you will notice that the very subject of this article is a delay in tariffs, as a result of Mexico and Canada implementing measures – objectively positive measures – on issues that are completely unrelated to trade. It couldn’t be more clear that Trump primarily uses tariffs as leverage, to gain concessions and cooperation on issues that may even – as with case for NATO – be in the interest of _all_ parties. Co dependence is a heck of a thing.

      And that’s not to say that tariffs purely for trade are never a good thing. Sending raw materials to a rising authoritarian superpower with global aspirations so that we can buy the finished products made from those same materials right back from them is clearly on a different plane than a blanket, long term tariff on every product, from every nation, in the wake of a global economic crash. Of course the latter was likely to add to the disaster( compounding, many would argue, the suppressive impacts of FDR’s ‘New Deal’).

      Wikipedia should be taken with a few buckets of salt, but I don’t think anybody who’s paying attention would actually mistake Trump’s use of tariffs for _this_ :

      ‘Most of the decline in trade was due to a plunge in GDP in the US and worldwide. However, beyond that was additional decline. Some countries protested and others also retaliated with trade restrictions and tariffs. American exports to the protesters fell 18% and exports to those who retaliated fell 31%.[18] Threats of retaliation by other countries began long before the bill was enacted into law in June 1930. As the House of Representatives passed it in May 1929, boycotts broke out, and foreign governments moved to increase rates against American products, although rates could be increased or decreased by the Senate or by the conference committee. By September 1929, Hoover’s administration had received protest notes from 23 trading partners, but the threats of retaliatory actions were ignored.’

      It’s apples and oranges. Smoot and Hawley promised the tariffs would result in long term prosperity for American workers and farmers – a bewildering promise from a Republican in that or any era, and the tariffs inevitably backfired. Trump, conversely, acknowledges some possible economic pain in the short term, in exchange for leveraging long term concessions from countries that are far less able to absorb the consequences of a tariff war, for far less time, than we are able to; with clear conditions to those countries for either avoiding or immediately ending the tariffs imposed. Even a trade war with China wouldn’t compare; otherwise, the result of the first three years of Trump’s first term would have been an economic disaster, not growth.

  8. “Mexico exports to U.S. as a percentage of GDP: 35%
    Canada exports to U.S. as a percentage of GDP: 22%
    U.S. exports to Canada as a percentage of GDP: 1.5%
    U.S. exports to Mexico as a percentage of GDP: 1.2%”

    Manipulating number is easy for political purposes.
    I guess it would be illogical that Usa with 335 million population would export 22% percent of GDP to Canada with population of 40,1 million. Gdp of USA is about 25 trillion and of Canada is 2.1 trillion what is more than 10 x less or about 8.5% of Usa, depends on the source.

    Mexico has gdp of about 1.8 trillion so that comparison in percentages of gdp is just manipulation.

    Export to import ration in percentages could be more even, but is that really the fault of Canada?

    • I totally agree and Brian is putting a sort of misleading information here , I’m really disappointed as a long time reader ! So easy to manipulate people with no critical thinking…

      • What’s misleading? Trump threatened tariffs, got concessions from Canada and Mexico and stayed the tariffs. Or is this not true?

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