250203 Trump to pause tariffs on Canada and Mexico (BBC)

• US President Donald Trump's proposed 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, which were set to come into effect on Tuesday, will be paused for a month 
  • come into effect: 시행되다, 발효되다 (= take effect, begin)
  • Come into play: 작동하기 시작하다 (= start to have an effect)
    • In the summer months a different set of climatic factors come into play. (여름철에는 다양한 기후 요인이 작용한다) 
    • All the resources and staff available were brought into play to cope with the crisis (위기에 대처하기 위해 사용 가능한 모든 자원과 인력이 투입되었다)
  • Come into question: 문제가 되다
• The cooling-down period comes after Mexico and Canada agreed to take measures to improve border security and clamp down on drug trafficking
  • cooling down period
  • take measures (= take steps, take actions, take controls, counteract)
  • counteract: 악영향에 대응하다
    • Drinking a lot of water counteracts the dehydrating effects of hot weather (물을 많이 마시는 것은 더운 날씨의 탈수효과에 대응한다) 
    • Spending on marketing and advertising has increased in order to counteract falling sales 
  • clamp down on N: 엄하게 단속하다
• Canada and Mexico are the two largest trading partners for the US, and both had announced retaliatory trade measures if Trump followed through on his plan
  • follow through on (plan): 완수하다 (=carry out, complete, execute, implement)
  • retaliatory: 보복의
• Canada will appoint a "fentanyl tsar", and Mexico will send 10,000 troops to the border as part of the deal with Trump
• Earlier, the US president warned he would also impose trade tariffs on the EU, but suggested a deal could "be worked out" with the UK

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c8d90v1m6qvt