Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum hinted at retaliation for President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed 25 percent import tariffs. Sheinbaum said US tariffs would be met with Mexican tariffs. “One tariff will be followed by another in response, and so on until we put normal businesses at risk,” Scheinbaum said.
Trump said Monday that his first action as president would be a 25 percent tax on all imports from Mexico and Canada in an effort to curb immigration and the flow of narcotics into the United States. “These tariffs will remain in effect until drugs, especially fentanyl, and all illegal aliens stop invading our country!” Trump wrote on his Truth social page.
“Both Mexico and Canada have the absolute right and power to easily resolve this long-simmering problem. We hereby demand that they exercise that power,” Trump added, “and until they do, at great cost to them.” Time to pay!”
Sheinbaum said the plan would do nothing to stem the flow of migrants or drugs bound for the US border but would only cause inflation and job losses in both countries. “What’s the point there?” The president said he was willing to negotiate on the issue but drugs are a US problem, she said.
Mexico has done much to stem the flow of migrants, the president said, adding that Mexico suffers from the flow of weapons smuggled from the United States.
Justin Trudeau says he had a good relationship with Donald Trump
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau said he had a good phone call with Donald Trump again last night. “We talked about how intense and effective communication flows back and forth between the two countries. We talked about some of the challenges we can work on together. It was a good call. This is something we can do. — facts, and looking forward constructively this is a relationship that we will certainly work on and that is something that we will all look at together.” said.