{"id":31862,"date":"2025-01-29T19:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T19:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/canada-and-mexico-can-avoid-tariffs-before-saturdays-deadline-says-trumps-commerce-pick\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T19:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T19:49:09","slug":"canada-and-mexico-can-avoid-tariffs-before-saturdays-deadline-says-trumps-commerce-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/canada-and-mexico-can-avoid-tariffs-before-saturdays-deadline-says-trumps-commerce-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada and Mexico can avoid tariffs before Saturday\u2019s deadline, says Trump\u2019s commerce pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Lutnick testified at his US Senate confirmation hearing for his nomination to head commerce department<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/jan\/29\/donald-trump-democrats-freeze-federal-funding-us-politics-live\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s nominee to run the commerce department, Howard Lutnick, said on Wednesday that Canada and Mexico can avoid looming US tariffs if they act swiftly to close their borders to fentanyl, while vowing to slow China\u2019s advancement in artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Lutnick, a billionaire Wall Street CEO, at his US Senate confirmation hearing said he has advised Trump to pursue across-the-board tariffs country-by-country to restore \u201creciprocity\u201d to America\u2019s trading relationships and said he would erect stronger curbs on China\u2019s access to US technology, including advanced AI semiconductors.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/29\/tariffs-deadline-trump-commerce-pick-howard-lutnick\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Lutnick testified at his US Senate confirmation hearing for his nomination to head commerce department US politics live \u2013 latest updates Donald Trump\u2019s nominee to run the commerce department, Howard Lutnick, said on Wednesday that Canada and Mexico can avoid looming US tariffs if they act swiftly to close their borders to fentanyl, while &#8230; <a title=\"Canada and Mexico can avoid tariffs before Saturday\u2019s deadline, says Trump\u2019s commerce pick\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/canada-and-mexico-can-avoid-tariffs-before-saturdays-deadline-says-trumps-commerce-pick\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Canada and Mexico can avoid tariffs before Saturday\u2019s deadline, says Trump\u2019s commerce pick\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}