Canada and Mexico leaders take credit for dodging latest US tariffs

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Mexican and Canadian officials spent Wednesday afternoon frantically searching Donald Trump’s “reciprocal tariff” list for the latest bad news from Washington, only to discover they had been granted a reprieve.

An exemption for goods exported to the US under the three countries’ free trade agreement relieved those who had feared the US president would place