New US tariffs on Canada, Mexico could be eased, commerce chief says

FILE - A line of trucks wait to cross the Bluewater Bridge border crossing between Sarnia, Ontario and Port Huron, Michigan, Jan. 29, 2025. FILE - Then-Commerce Secretary nominee Howard Lutnick speaks in the Oval Office of the White House after President Donald Trump signed an executive order, in Washington., Feb. 13, 2025. Coils of steel cable are pictured inside a stainless steel manufacturing plant in Tlaxcala, Mexico, Feb. 11, 2025.

U.S. President Donald Trump is planning to impose new tariffs Tuesday on Canadian and Mexican exports to the United States, but Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday they may not be as high as the 25% figure Trump was planning.