Lutnick signals dairy, lumber tariffs on Canada not coming before April

Lutnick signals dairy, lumber tariffs on Canada not coming before April


Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick indicated on Sunday that the tariffs on lumber and dairy products that President Donald Trump threatened onto Canada late last week are not coming before April 2, when the president’s sweeping reciprocal tariffs are set to take hold.

Lutnick revealed the updated tariff plan in a segment on NBC News’s Meet the Press, where he pointed to Canada’s “outrageous” 250% tariff on U.S. dairy products, which he said will be responded to come April.

“Those reactions, changes to USMCA and beyond, they start on April 2. So on April 2, we are going to revisit again the fentanyl issues and we are going to revisit again the general trade issues of reciprocality. Remember, Canada is supposed to have a free trade agreement

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