Tractor trailers wait in line at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry, on the US-Mexico border in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Photo by Carlos Moreno / Bloomberg

The United States is extending a deadline to reach a trade deal with Mexico for several weeks, President Claudia Sheinbaum said, in what would be the latest reprieve Donald Trump has granted his neighbour from punishing tariffs.

Sheinbaum and Trump spoke briefly Saturday and agreed to extend talks to give the nations more time to reach a deal on non-tariff trade barriers that are still under discussion, she said during her daily press briefing Monday.

Trump had set a Nov. 1 deadline to raise the fentanyl-related tariffs he imposed on certain Mexican goods to 30 per cent from 25 per cent. The levies apply to products that are no

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