Mexico city – In a dizzying round, President Trump said on Thursday that the United States would temporarily reverse the extensive tariffs that it imposed on most Mexican products a few days ago.
In a post about the social of truth, Trump said that he would delay the increase in taxes from 25% to Mexican imports to a month that falls into a free trade agreement that he had negotiated during his last term.
His comments follow comments from the US trade secretary Howard Lutnick, who said on Thursday in a television interview that Trump was “probably” “probably” 25% tariffs in Canada and Mexico for most products and services, which was only expanded for vehicles.
Lutnick said CNBC that the one-month delay of import taxes “probably all USMCA-compliant goods and services” will cover “, an indication of the trade agreement between the USA and Mexico Canada, the North America Free Track Pact Pact from Trump in his last term. Lutnick said that about half of what the US imports from Mexico and Canada would be justified.
Lutnick said that the deletion would only last until April 2 when the Trump government said that it would impose mutual tariffs against the countries that they correspond to US exports. Later he said if Canada and Mexico do not do enough to keep fentanyl from getting to the United States, the 25% tariffs could be used again in a month.
On Tuesday, the United States started with the task of 25% for imported goods from Mexico and Canada with a price of 10% for Canadian energy products. A new tax of 10% on all imports from China also began.
Trump said the tariffs were punished because the three countries did not do enough to stop the flow of immigrants without adequate documentation and drugs to the United States – and are an attempt to withdraw the production to the USA.
China and Canada reacted violently and both imposed retaliation duties to US goods. The Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum had explained that Mexico would also react with meter tariffs, and had planned to announce them on Sunday at a public rally on the central square in Mexico city.
In Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that he had welcomed the news that the United States would be delayed, but Canada's imposition of retaliation tariffs will exist for the time being. “We will not withdraw from our response tariffs until the unjustified American tariffs (on) Canadian goods are lifted,” he said.
Trudeau said reporters that the USA and Canada “actively conduct on continuous discussions to ensure that these tariffs do not harm certain sectors and employees too excessively”.