Mexico Will Impose Retaliatory Tariffs On U.S. Goods | rssama.com

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said Tuesday that Mexico will respond to 25% tariffs imposed by nan United States pinch its ain retaliatory tariffs connected U.S. goods.

Sheinbaum said she will denote nan products Mexico will target connected Sunday successful a nationalist arena successful Mexico City’s cardinal plaza, possibly indicating Mexico still hopes to de-escalate nan waste and acquisition warfare group disconnected by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Unlike China and Canada, Mexico decided to hold until Sunday, though nan state has said since January that it had a scheme fresh for precisely this scenario.

Canada said it would slap tariffs connected much than $100 cardinal of American equipment complete nan people of 21 days.

Sheinbaum said Tuesday that location is nary logic for penalties connected immoderate of nan largest trading partners for nan U.S.

“There is nary motive aliases reason, nor justification that supports this determination that will impact our group and our nations,” she said.

The tariffs that had been threatened by President Donald Trump’sagainst Canada and Mexico went into effect Tuesday ratcheting up nan consequence of retaliations from nan United States’ North American allies.

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, President of Mexico, speaking astir Fentanyl seizures astatine nan southwest separator during a briefing convention astatine National Palace. connected March 3, 2025 successful Mexico City, Mexico. (Luis Barron/ Pixelnews/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

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Starting conscionable past midnight, imports from Canada and Mexico are now to beryllium taxed astatine 25%, pinch Canadian power products taxable to 10% import duties.

Sheinbaum rejected nan “fact sheet” published by nan White House Monday that repeated nan accusation that Mexican supplier traffickers persist because “an intolerable narration pinch nan authorities Mexico.”

Mexico’s president called it “offensive, defamatory and without support” and past listed nan achievements of her young management against Mexico’s powerful supplier cartels, including seizing much than a ton of fentanyl and dismantling 329 methamphetamine labs. She besides noted that Mexico had sent 29 supplier cartel figures requested by nan United States to that state past week.

“We collaborate to debar forbidden supplier trafficking to nan United States, but arsenic we person said connected aggregate occasions, that country’s authorities must return work excessively for nan situation of opioid depletion that has caused truthful galore deaths successful nan United States,” Sheinbaum said.

Mexico’s president added that nan tariffs Mexico will respond pinch are “not successful immoderate measurement aliases pinch nan intent of starting an economical aliases commercialized confrontation that unluckily and regrettably is nan other of what we must beryllium doing.”

“It’s inconceivable that they don’t deliberation astir nan harm this is going to origin to United States citizens and businesses pinch nan summation successful prices for things produced successful our country,” Sheinbaum said. “Also nan harm it will origin by stopping occupation creation successful some countries. No 1 wins pinch this decision.”

In guidance to tariffs connected China, Beijing announced further tariffs of up to 15% connected imports of cardinal U.S. workplace products, including chicken, pork, soy and beef, and expanded controls connected doing business pinch cardinal U.S. companies.

China’s caller tariffs will return effect starting March 10. They travel U.S. President Donald Trump’s bid to raise tariffs connected imports of Chinese products to 20% crossed nan board. Those took effect connected Tuesday, on pinch 25% tariffs connected imports from Canada and Mexico.

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