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Trinidad and To­ba­go’s ex­ports of an­hy­drous am­mo­nia, urea and urea-am­mo­ni­um ni­trate will again en­ter the Unit­ed States du­ty-free af­ter Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump signed an Ex­ec­u­tive Or­der on 14 No­vem­ber mod­i­fy­ing the scope of rec­i­p­ro­cal tar­iffs in­tro­duced ear­li­er this year.

The Min­istry of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs said the de­ci­sion re­vers­es a move made in April, when the prod­ucts were re­moved from An­nex II of Ex­ec­u­tive Or­der 14257 and sub­ject­ed to a 15 per cent tar­iff. The new mea­sure takes ef­fect for goods en­ter­ing the US from 12:01 a.m. on 13 No­vem­ber.

Ac­cord­ing to the White House, the or­der was is­sued af­ter up­dat­ed as­sess­ments on trade ne­go­ti­a­tions, do­mes­tic de­mand and do­mes­tic pro­duc­tion ca­pac­i­ty. It said cer­tain agri­cul­tur­al prod­ucts will no longer fall un­der the rec­i­p­ro­cal tar­iff regime that the Unit­ed States in­tro­duced in April as part of its re­sponse to what it de­scribed as na­tion­al-se­cu­ri­ty and eco­nom­ic risks linked to per­sis­tent US trade deficits.