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As Canadians obsess, Americans barely register the latest tariff news

The news that Canada and the U.S. have reached a tentative trade deal is everywhere — unless you live south of the border, that is On Tuesday, at the eleventh hour, Donald Trump announced that Canada and the U.S. have reached a tentative trade deal, and paused a scheduled 50 per cent tariff on Canadian […]

By deepak · August 20, 2026 · 2 min read

The news that Canada and the U.S. have reached a tentative trade deal is everywhere — unless you live south of the border, that is

On Tuesday, at the eleventh hour, Donald Trump announced that Canada and the U.S. have reached a tentative trade deal, and paused a scheduled 50 per cent tariff on Canadian goods for three more days.

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On Wednesday morning, the development featured as the top story on most, if not all, major Canadian news websites, including Bloomberg Canada, CBC, Global News, CTV and here, at National Post. It was also the front page story in today’s Globe and Mail.

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Press Gazette puts the New York Times, Fox, CNN and Yahoo Finance as the top news websites in the U.S. by audience and, on Wednesday morning, none of them featured the tariff development as the main story on their homepage.

Scroll down past the top articles on the Times website and you’ll see the headline “Canada gets 3-Day Reprieve From Punishing Trump Tariffs,” but the development didn’t get a mention on today’s front page.

Source: Read the original article on nationalpost.com