New Actor: Trump sets midnight deadline for Canada-U.S. tariff deal

Negotiators stayed at the table in Washington as a tariff deadline loomed, with officials saying any announcement could come as late as midnight. President Trump had paused a set of 50% tariffs for a short period and tweeted that they “have a DEAL!”, but the pact remained unfinished and still needed to be finalized.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer led talks in Washington while Canada’s Dominic LeBlanc was on site. Ottawa’s negotiators were asked to take specific provincial actions, notably to return U.S. wine and liquor to store shelves and to remove procurement language that explicitly barred American suppliers.

Details of the agreement were still unclear late into the day; the briefs in play reportedly included broad U.S. market access, economic-security commitments and digital-trade alignment. If no agreement was signed before the deadline, the U.S. tariffs were set to take effect and analysts warned that the trade dispute would likely escalate.

AI-synthesized from multiple reported sources