In the hours before Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a 30-day pause on US President Donald Trump’s threatened 25% tariff on Canadian goods, the co-founder of one of Canada’s largest auto parts manufacturers was bewildered.

Mexico and Canada on Monday reached separate agreements with President Trump to pause tariffs for 30-days, staving off a U.S. trade war with those countries for the time being.Over the weekend, the Trump administration had said it would levy 25% import tariffs on goods from the two countries,