Trump got rolled and to save face he got some "concessions".
What is not mentioned in the CNN article below is that Mexico also got a concession: US will try stop high-powered weapons illegally flowing into Mexico. Apparently this is the first time USA will do this.
>>>... But what did Trump get? What did it cost? And will it last?
A more objective view of the bizarre showdown with America’s neighbors suggests a blunter truth: Trump blinked.
The president vowed as recently as last week that there was nothing that Canada or Mexico could do to avoid the tariffs he planned to impose.
But he pulled back on imposing them anyway.
As markets tanked on Monday morning, the potential consequences of a North American trade war were laid bare. The potential for tariffs to spike the grocery prices that Trump was partly elected to fix came into focus. There were fresh warnings that the auto industry — a cross-border concern — could seize up and that the price of a new vehicle could soon shoot up by $3,000.
And Canada and Mexico didn’t really give up that much.
For the Canadians, the cost of a new border strategy was far lower than the fallout of a trade war — and they’d offered the $1.3 billion border strengthening program back in December. Adding a new “fentanyl” czar was hardly a huge political loss.
Mexico has several times moved troops to the border. For example, it sent 10,000 in April 2021 at the request of President Joe Biden, who didn’t need to threaten to pitch America’s southern neighbor into a recession to get it to act. ... <<<
First couple of minutes in the YouTube clip below Catherine Rampell lays out that Trump got rolled by Mexico and Canada:
