The U.S. will resume tariffs on Canada and Mexico that were announced on February 1. A 10% tariff on China is still in effect. No negotiations were made with China to halt the process of any tariffs.
Around the time of the February announcement, Mexico and Canada negotiated with the U.S. in hopes of getting them stopped. After making promises to increase border security, both countries received a month-long pause on the tariffs.
On February 27, in a Truth Social post, President Donald Trump gave an ultimatum that, unless drug trafficking is stopped or seriously limited by these countries, only then tariffs could be halted:
Unless the ultimatum is met, or if new negotiations are made between the countries, the tariffs will go into effect next week on March 4. “We’re on time with the tariffs, and it seems like that’s moving along very rapidly,” Trump stated.
For different reasons compared to Canada and Mexico, the U.S. announced it will be putting new tariffs on several goods coming from the European Union (EU).
The President told reporters: “We’ll be announcing it very soon. It’ll be [a] 25% [tariff] generally speaking, and that will be on cars and all other things.”
He addressed the rationale behind the tariffs, and claimed the EU was formed to screw the United States: “They’ve really taken advantage of us … They don’t accept our cars, they don’t accept, essentially, our farm products. They use all sorts of reasons why not. And we accept everything of them.”
Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk defended the EU in light of President Trump’s remarks and the forthcoming tariffs:
On February 11, the EU announced countermeasures against U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum.
