President Donald Trump defended the customs tariff as an economic tool that will bring parity in the country’s chronic trade deficit with foreign countries while strengthening American jobs and economics. But many Trump’s tariff policies have been subjected to one or temporarily stopped after entering into force.
“I will immediately start reforming our trade system for the protection of American workers and families. Instead of imposing taxes on our citizens to enrich other countries, we will target and tax on foreign countries to enrich our citizens,” Trump announced in his opening speech on January 20.
Customs duties are taxes It was imposed on imported goods and services that have historically contributed to federal tax revenues in the country. However, the developed countries have since been away from relying on customs tariffs as a major source of federal financing and turned into other forms of taxes – such as income, salaries or sales taxes.
On Tuesday, which was today the 100th of Trump in the Oval Office, Trump signed executive measures to alleviate the customs tariff targeting car manufacturers while heading to Michigan, historically the heart of the American auto industry, to attend a gathering celebrated to the White House.
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President Donald Trump defended the customs tariff as an economic tool that will bring parity in the country’s chronic trade deficit with foreign countries while strengthening American jobs and economics. (Brendan Smaliowski/AFP via Getty Images)
The upcoming car plan will retain 25 % on imported cars and a 25 % tariff authority on imported auto parts, but it will provide relief credits for American manufacturers for a period of two years in an attempt to enhance the American supply chain of auto parts and encourage manufacturing in the United States, according to the administration.
Also, the plan will not accumulate the tariffs of cars, steel and aluminum in the auto industry. The high tariff will only be applied to cars manufacturers, not the integrated tariff.
This advertisement is the latest Trump walking back, stopping temporarily or alleviating customs tariffs because it looks forward to the United States Trade Stadium, while encouraging the United States to manufacture and create jobs. The industries that make products on American soil do not face any tariffs.
A White House official who spoke to Fox News Digital explained that although the past few months of customs tariff changes may seem messy in its entirety, every change has been born from the need to be flexible and effort to bring manufacturing and jobs to the United States while ending the country’s chronic trade deficit. The official pointed out that with the flow of definitions, many countries and industrial leaders have made good efforts to negotiate favorable conditions for the United States, which increased the changes in customs tariffs.
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Trump’s tariff policies focused on an overwhelming majority on China, Mexico and Canada at the beginning of his second administration, as he was looking to eliminate illegal immigration. It was also an attempt to stop the fatal fentanel flow, which arises by an overwhelming majority in China, from reaching the northern and southern border.
Quoting the threat of illegal foreigners in the United States and the flow of fentanel, Trump declared a national emergency in February under the Economic Forces Act of International Emergency and imposed a 25 % tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico and 10 % additional tariffs from imports from China.
Customs duties rapidly angered the three countries, and Trump stopped the customs tariff for Canada and Mexico for 30 days after countries agreed to concessions, such as sending additional security staff to their borders with the United States

Migrants walk along a road in a convoy in an attempt to reach the American border, in Tabsola, Mexico, in November 2023. (Jose Torres/Reuters)
China, on the other hand, has imposed a tariff on some American imports in response to Trump’s definitions. The Ministry of Finance in China February 4, shortly after the start of the customs tariff, said that it will impose a 15 % tariff on coal and liquefied natural gas and 10 % for raw oil, agricultural equipment and cars with large engines imported from the United States
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The administration official, who spoke to Fox Digital, referred to the changes to customs tariffs in Mexico and Canada as part of the negotiations to secure the borders after Trump announced the state of national emergency under the Law of Economic Forces in the International Emergency.
The customs tariff for Mexico and Canada entered into force on March 4 after the stopping stopped, while the customs tariff on China increased to 20 %. A day later, after speaking, after talking to Ford, GMP and Stellantis, Trump retracted the customs tariff if they influenced the automotive industry, and was given an exemption for one month on the customs tariff “on any cars” from the two countries that adhere to the rules of the first agreement of the United States and the lycada of 2020.
White House press secretary Caroline Levitte at a press conference at the time, that these rules were set under the first Trump administration.

President Donald Trump (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
On March 6, Trump walked again on a 25 % tariff on many imports from Canada and Mexico, while Mexican President Claudia Xinbum praised the help of securing the borders of the United States and Mexico. He postponed the tariffs for 30 days and concluded that the very expected mutual tariff plan will enter in the coming weeks.
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“Our relationship was very good, and we are working hard, together on the border,” Trump said on March 6.

Mexican President Claudia Shinbom speaks during a press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico, January 8, 2025. (Henry Romero/Reuters)
While announcing the customs tariff and imposing it on countries such as Mexico and Canada, Trump inspected the mutual tariff plan that will be entered on April 2.
“In the trade I decided for fairness, I will do Shipping a mutual tariff Trump at the White House said in February: “In the sense that the countries that receive the United States of America, we will impose on them not to advance, no less, and we impose on them the same tax or customs tariffs. Very simple.”
Trump announced the very expected mutual tariff plan as part of his “Liberation Day” announcement on April 2. Trump announced a tariff dedicated to dozens of nations for help Commercial barriers On American goods, while also a 10 % base tariff imposed on all countries.
“For countries that deal with us badly, we will count the common rate of all customs duties, non -cash barriers and other forms of fraud. “Because we want very much, we will impose nearly half of what they are while we were shipping. Therefore, the definitions will not be complete. I could do that. Yes. But it was difficult for many countries.”
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For example, the European Union was hit with a 20 % tariff in the mutual tariff plan, compared to it 39 % The customs tariff for the United States, while Japan witnessed a 24 % tariff compared to 46 % of the country’s fees that China was exposed to in the United States with additional additions 34 % tariffs, compared to 67 % receives the United States

President Donald Trump speaks during a commercial advertisement event, “Make the wealthy America again” in the garden of roses in the White House April 2, 2025, in Washington, DC (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
On the same day that the mutual tariff was about to enter on April 9, Trump announced a temporary stop for 90 days about the allocated duty taxes imposed on dozens of nations, which was a sudden change in his decision from his previous comments that there would be no stopping of these definitions, only negotiations. The pause of the basic tariff did not include 10 % on all nations.
“You must have flexibility,” Trump told the media when asked about his credibility after stopping the definitions. “I can say that there is a wall … sometimes, you have to wander or under the wall. Financial markets change. Look at what extent you have changed. I think the word will be” flexible “. You must be flexible.”

Trade Minister Howard Lootnick, President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Beesen (Getty Images)
White House officials told Fox News Digital at the time that dozens of countries have contacted the White House aspiring to make good deals, and that the administration was reaching more deals for the United States
Treasury Secretary, Scott Payette, indicated in recent days that commercial negotiations with South Korea and India enter the final stages at least.
Other definitions, such as a 25 % tax on all imports of steel and aluminum or 10 % base tariff for foreign countries, are valid unchanged.
Trump has described as with increased revenues from definitions, American citizens can see fewer taxes and a possible income tax.
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“When the tariffs are reduced, the taxes of many people will be dramatically reduced, and they may be completely eliminated. The focus will be on people who get less than $ 200,000 a year,” Trump wrote in a post on April 13.
“Also, huge numbers of jobs are already created, with new factories and factories currently being built or planned. It will be a reward for America !!! Foreign revenue service occurs !!!”
Eric Rafel from Fox News Digital contributed to this report.