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No new Canada tariffs — for now

I regret to inform you that we still have to think about tariffs.

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Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump’s planned Canada tariffs are off — for now.

What happened? Trump had previously threatened 50-percent tariffs on about $20 billion worth of Canadian goods, but delayed them late on Tuesday, hours before they were set to take effect.

In a social media post, he wrote that the tariffs were on hold for “a three day period, based on the fact that........

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