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In late October 2025, the U.S. Senate voted to end tariffs on Canada.
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Four Republican senators joined Democrats in quashing U.S. tariffs on Canada on Oct. 29, 2025. The vote was part of a larger effort to repeal President Donald Trump’s tariffs and was one of three votes on the issue that week. On Oct. 28, the Senate voted to end tariffs on Brazil. On Oct. 30, the Senate voted to end the global tariffs Trump imposed on many countries in April 2025. As of this writing, the three Senate joint resolutions must now go to the House of Representatives to become law, but the House is unlikely to bring them to the floor for a vote.
In late October 2025, claims spread online that the U.S. Senate had voted to end President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian imports.
For example, the X account Republicans against Trump posted the claim with a video, adding that four Republican senators had broken rank to vote against the tariffs on Canada (archived):
As of this writing, the post had gained 3 million views and 75,000 likes. Several other accounts shared the rumor on X as well as on Reddit, Bluesky and Facebook.
The claim was true. A review of the Senate’s roll call votes for the week of Oct. 27, 2025, showed that the upper house voted to quash not only Trump’s tariffs on Canadian products, but also his tariffs on Brazil and the rest of the world.
It was also true that several Republicans broke rank to vote with Democrats on the three joint resolutions. As of this writing the pieces of legislation were set to head to the House of Representatives, which was unlikely to bring them to a vote.
The Senate’s concerted effort to repeal all tariffs
On Oct. 29, Senate Joint Resolution 77 “terminating the national emergency declared to impose duties on articles imported from Canada” passed with 50 votes against 46.
Among the yeas were four Republicans, the roll call showed: Sens. Susan Collins, from Maine, Lisa Murkowski, from Alaska, and both senators from Kentucky, Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul.
Collins, Murkowski and Paul had been three of the 16 co-sponsors for this joint resolution, which Sen. Tim Kaine, a Democrat from Virginia, introduced on Sept. 16, 2025.
The day before on Oct. 28, the Senate voted to end tariffs on Brazil, with Joint Resolution 81 “terminating the national emergency declared to impose duties on articles imported from Brazil.”
Kaine also introduced this piece of legislation, alongside 10 co-sponsors including Paul.
This joint resolution passed with 52 yeas against 48 nays, the roll call showed. The same four Republican senators — Collins, Murkowski, McConnell and Paul — voted in favor, along with a fifth: Sen. Thom Tillis from North Carolina.
Lastly, on Oct. 30, the Senate voted on, and passed, Joint Resolution 88 “terminating the national emergency declared to impose global tariffs,” referring to the sweeping reciprocal tariffs Trump introduced on April 2, 2025.
Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, had introduced the joint resolution on Oct. 7, backed by six co-sponsors including Paul (the rest were Democrats).
The roll call revealed Collins, McConnell, Murkowski and Paul had once again joined the Democrats in voting to end global tariffs.
The three pieces of legislation’s next stop at the time of this writing was the House of Representatives, which was unlikely to bring it to the floor. In September 2025, the House voted to block consideration to end Trump’s declarations of national emergency related to tariffs until the end of March 2026 (the original rule blocked consideration only until the end of September 2025).
These votes came as Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea on Oct. 30. After the meeting, Trump said he had agreed to reduce tariffs on China.
