Canadian and Mexican goods that are compliant with the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement will continue to be tariff-free, the White House has said. An administration official said Wednesday that new reciprocal tariffs wouldn't apply to Mexico and Canada,

Canada and Mexico were notably absent from a long list of trading partners the president announced he would tariff on Wednesday.

The Donald Trump administration announced on Wednesday that Canada and Mexico will be exempt from the baseline 10 per cent tariff rate, as well as reciprocal levies for specific countries, for now. The 10 per cent tariff will only take effect when the original 25 per cent duties Trump imposed on Canadian and Mexican imports are either terminated