Mexico and Canada avoided fresh tariffs on Wednesday with President Donald Trump exempting the United States' top trading partners from his new 10% global tariff baseline, although previous duties remain in place.

Canada and Mexico wouldn’t immediately be subject to the new tariff regime, senior administration officials told reporters Wednesday, but instead would still be subject to the tariffs Trump previously imposed,

Four Republican Senators vote with Democrats to try and end levies on imported Canadian goods, steel and aluminium.