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  • Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.

  • President Trump says he's temporarily pausing planned 50% tariffs on around $20 billion worth of Canadian

  • goods for three days that were set to go into effect early this morning, saying on social media that the U.S.

  • And Canada have reached an agreement without giving details, but he did mention the Keystone XL pipeline.

  • And Piers Emily Fang has more.

  • The deadline for these tariffs was supposed to kick in.

  • Midnight last night, but with less than two hours to go before

  • that deadline, Trump announced he was temporarily calling them off.

  • And he wrote on True Social, what was key behind

  • this deal was the potential to restart the Keystone Pipeline, a joint project between U.S.

  • And Canadian companies to deliver oil from Canada to the U.S.,

  • but it got mired in an environmental controversy and its permit

  • was ultimately revoked by President Biden through an executive order.

  • Trump rolled back that executive order last year as part of his push to expand the U.S.'s oil and gas sector.