The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said Thursday that he will temporarily renounce tariffs on Mexico's products that are under the North American Free Trade Agreement, two days after launching a continental commercial war.
The announcement did not mention Canada, who also faces radical tariffs in all goods that enter the US.
“After talking with President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico, I have agreed that Mexico will not have to pay tariffs on anything that falls under the USMCA agreement,” Trump wrote about Truth Social after a scheduled call between the two leaders.
“This agreement is until April 2. I did this as an accommodation, and out of respect for President Sheinbaum. “
The post cited the United States-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) agreement that Trump negotiated with the two countries during his first term in 2018, which is known as Cusma in Canada.
Most of the products negotiated between Mexico, Canada and the United States are under the rules of Cusma.
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Trump said he and Sheinbaum were “working hard, together” in border security concerns, including fentanyl, which Trump has frequently cited by 25 percent rates in Mexico and Canada that entered into force on Tuesday, along with 10 percent of encumbrances in Canadian energy.
The Trump administration has accused Canada of not doing enough to address those same border security problems, despite a total of $ 1.5 billion of federal government investments, the appointment of a fentanyl tsar and the data that shows fentanyl seizures on the border with Canada-United States have continued to fall from maximum records last year.
Trudeau and Trump discussed the issue of fentanil during a telephone call of almost an hour on Wednesday, which the prime minister described the journalists on Thursday as “colorful.”
“I can confirm that we will continue in a commercial war that was launched by the United States in the predictable future,” he said.
Trump's announcement occurs after his secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, told CNBC that tariffs both in Canada and Mexico “probably” would be delayed. But Trump did not mention Canada in his ad.
Hours before, he accused Trudeau of “using the tariff problem, which has greatly caused to run again for the prime minister.” Trudeau will resign after the game votes to a new liberal leader on Sunday.
On Thursday he marked the second time this week that Trump announced an exemption to the tariffs of Canada and Mexico.
On Wednesday, the White House said the tariffs would stop at the three large Stellantis, General Motors and Ford, which operate production lines from North America, until April 2.
That's when Trump calls “reciprocal” tariffs will come into force to try to match all rates and commercial measures imposed by other countries.
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