In tweet, President Trump announces that 'Tariffs scheduled to be implemented by the U.S. on Monday, against Mexico, are hereby indefinitely suspended.'
— or at least postpone actually implementing the tariffs as talks continue — citing the potential harm to American consumers and manufactures.
The talks were said to be focused, in part, on attempting to reach a compromise on changes that would make it harder for migrants who pass through Mexico from other countries to claim asylum in the U.S., those monitoring the situation said. Mexico has opposed such a change but appeared open to considering a potential compromise that could include exceptions or waivers for different types of cases.
“If negotiations continue to go well,” Trump “can turn that off at some point over the weekend,” Marc Short, Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, told reporters. “That is being looked at,” he said Friday morning during his daily news conference, where he held out hope a deal could be reached before Monday’s deadline.
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