in effect
This is a presidential Executive Order (EO 14197, signed February 3, 2025) that modifies an earlier order from February 1, 2025 which had imposed tariffs on goods imported from Canada. Rather than creating new tariffs, this order pauses the earlier ones and directs continued monitoring of conditions at the U.S.–Canada border.
The earlier order set tariffs on Canadian products — 25% on most goods and 10% on energy products — scheduled to take effect February 4, 2025. This order pushes that start date back to March 4, 2025 at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time, on the stated basis that Canada had taken immediate cooperative steps and more time was needed to assess them. It also removes an earlier exemption that had protected goods already loaded onto a vessel or in transit before entering the United States. The order states that if the migration and drug crises worsen and Canada fails to act sufficiently, the President may implement the paused tariffs immediately. During the pause, the Secretary of Homeland Security — consulting with the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and two presidential national/homeland security advisers — is directed to keep assessing the border situation.
Companies that import Canadian goods, and businesses whose supply chains cross the northern border, get roughly a one-month reprieve before the tariffs can begin. Importers relying on the now-withdrawn in-transit exemption lose that protection. The order also assigns ongoing assessment duties to the named U.S. agencies and officials, and frames the Canadian government’s actions as the condition being watched.