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.

The initial justification for the off-again, on-again tariffs on Canada and Mexico — as well as tariffs on China, which are in effect — cited what the White House said was these countries’ failure at “stopping poisonous fentanyl and other drugs from flowing into our country.

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,