TRUMP'S CANADA DEAL DOESN'T EXIST
Trump announced a deal at 11:24pm Eastern. Canada's prime minister would not confirm it. The 50% tariff returns Friday.
Donald Trump announced late Tuesday that the United States and Canada had reached a deal, and that he was pausing the 50% tariff he had threatened on Canadian goods for three days. He said it at about 11:24pm Eastern.
Mark Carney, Canada's prime minister, would not confirm it. "Important work" remained, Carney said.
One country came out of the night with a deal. The other came out of it with a phone call.
Carney and Trump spoke by phone before the deadline ran out, and the pause followed that call. The pause is also narrower than the announcement sounded: it covers some Canadian products, not all of them.
Three days is not a negotiating window. Trump threatened the tariff, stopped it on Tuesday night and set it running again on Friday — long enough to look like a man backing off, short enough that nobody has to sign anything. He withdrew nothing. He moved the date by 72 hours.
