The United States will exempt some Canadian goods from tariffs, covering nine categories of products including packaging materials and machinery equipment.

Zhitong Finance APP has learned that U.S. Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine said on Friday that the U.S. government will grant tariff exemptions for certain Canadian imported goods, covering nine categories of products including corrugated paper, plastic packaging materials, refrigeration equipment, and machinery. The move is intended to ease the cost pressure that tariffs have brought to Maine's agricultural producers, businesses, and households.