President Donald Trump announced in a Truth Social post that he and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to extend the deadline for reaching a trade deal, though he seemed flexible on the timeline. The buzzer-beater agreement comes just one day before the deadline Trump announced earlier this month. 

"We have agreed to extend, for a 90-day period, the exact same deal as we had for the last short period of time, namely, that Mexico will continue to pay a 25% fentanyl tariff, 25% tariff on cars, and 50% tariff on steel, aluminum, and copper. Additionally, Mexico has agreed to immediately terminate its non-tariff trade barriers, of which there were many," Trump wrote.

The president added that over the next 90 days the U.S. and Mexico would hold discussions with the goal of signing a trade deal in that time period or after that.

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