The Globe and Mail reports in its Friday, March 7, edition that U.S. President Donald Trump granted Canada and Mexico a temporary reprieve from 25-per-cent tariffs until April 2, a shift in trade policy that leaves Canadian businesses uncertain. The Globe's triple bylined item reports that Mr. Trump signed an executive order on Thursday, removing tariffs imposed just two days earlier on goods compliant with the USMCA, which affects many Canadian exports. The order also reduces the tariff on potash, used in fertilizer, from 25 per cent to 10 per cent. Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc, who has been in regular discussions with White House officials about the tariffs, said in a social-media post that Canada will not proceed with a second wave of retaliatory tariffs on about $125-billion worth of U.S. goods, "while we continue to work for the removal of all tariffs." Canadian tariffs on around $30-billion worth of U.S. goods, imposed earlier this week, will remain in place, Mr. LeBlanc added in an interview on CBC News. He said, "We want to get to a position that we were in two weeks ago, where there are no tariffs applied to the trade between Canada and the United States."