01:45 PM EST, 01/31/2025 (MT Newswires) -- The White House on Friday is denying a report from Reuters that it plans to delay imposition of a 25% tariff on imports from China until March 1 and will impose the levies on Saturday, the Guardian reported.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called the report false and the levies will be in place on Feb.1.

"25% tariffs on Mexico, 25% tariffs on Canada, and a 10% tariff on China for the illegal fentanyl that they have seen to our country, which has killed 10s of millions of American," Leavitt said, according to the news service.

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