A White House official confirmed Wednesday that the U.S. will maintain a 25% tariff on non-USMCA trade with Canada and Mexico. However, energy and potash will see reduced duties of 10%. This announcement follows escalating global trade tensions,

Economist Wojtek Kopczuk asked ChatGPT to calculate tariffs to balance out the U.S. trade deficit. He received a similar answer to the White House’s documentation, showing the AI used “a basic approach” that divided the trade deficit by the total trade. Entrepreneur Amy Hoy ran a similar experiment, yielding identical results from AI models.

President Donald Trump is scheduled to announce significant tariffs on other countries in a speech Wednesday afternoon at the White House.