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Trump administration is billing new rates in Mexico, Canada and China as critics to prevent fentanyl and other drugs From pouring the United States border, more than a step in an international trade war.
President Donald Trump It is imposing a 25% rate on all goods entering the United States from Mexico and Canada; a 10% rate on Canadian energy; and a 10% rate on all goods entering the United States from China. These rates will come into force on Tuesday at midnight.
Trump defends the rates, accuses Canada of being “very abusive of the United States”
The president spoke to the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday morning, he said, and he is expected to talk to him again at 3 p.m. Monday.
President Donald Trump talks to journalists as he signs executive orders at the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, January 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
“Canada does not even allow North -Americans to open or do business there,” Trump published in his social truth on Monday. “What is a lot of things, but it is also a drug war, and hundreds of thousands have died in the United States by drugs that pour the borders of Mexico and Canada.”
The president also spoke with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Monday morning, a conversation that resulted in Trump delaying the imposition of rates in Mexico for a month.
“It was a very kind conversation in which he agreed to immediately supply 10,000 Mexican soldiers to the border separating Mexico and the United States,” Trump published on his social truth. “These soldiers will be specifically designated to stop the flow of Fentanyl and the illegal migrants in our country.”
“We also agreed to pause the expected rates for a month during which we will have negotiations headed by the Secretary of State Marco Rubio, secretary of Treasor Scott Bessent, and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and high -level representatives. From Mexico, “Trump wrote. “I hope to participate in these negotiations, with President Sheinbaum, as we try to achieve a” treatment “between our two countries.”
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On Sunday, the Vice President JD Vance echoed a similar feeling in terms of drugs, publishing X that Mexico “sends tons of Fentanil in our country. Canada has experienced a massive increase in trafficking at his border “.
“There are three ways to stop it,” Vance wrote. “The first is to ask very well, we’ve done. It’s not gone.”
He added: “We are now in the consequences.”
And the Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum, said on Monday the imposition of rates “is not a trade war with Canada, neither Mexico or China”.
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“This is Fentanyl,” Burgum said to “Fox & Friends”. “We have had a massive invasion of our country. We have been doing massive victims. We lose almost 300 people a day by overdose of deaths.”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with President-elect Trump in Mar-Aago in Florida in November 2024 to discuss issues such as economics, illegal immigration and rates. (Justin Trudeau X)
Burgum added, “President Trump wants to end this.”
The President on Saturday authorized the rates in executive order. By virtue of the International Law of Emergency Economic Powers, to 25% additional rate It will be charged to the imports of Canada and Mexico, with a 10% rate to imports from China.
In executive order, Trump said The rates come from an “extraordinary threat posed by foreigners and illegal drugs, including fatal fentanil, (this) is a national emergency.”
The rates have invited international criticism of leaders and citizens in Canada and Mexico. During his exchange with journalists on Sunday evening, Trump accused the Canada of being “abusive” to the United States in terms of trade.
“Canada has been very abusive to the United States for many years. They do not allow our banks,” said Trump. “And you know that Canada does not allow the banks to enter, if you think about it. It is quite amazing. If we have a North -American Bank, they do not allow them to enter.”
“Canada has been very hard for energy oil. They do not allow our agricultural products, essentially. They do not allow many things.
Fentanyl took Nogales, Arizona. Agents and border officers took more than 1,900 pounds of illicit drug in October 2022. (Patrol of customs and borders)
Trump also said that the United States subsidizes Canada “for an amount of $ 200 million a year.”
“And for what? What do we get out of? We don’t get anything out,” he added. “I love the people of Canada. I do not agree with the leadership of Canada and something will happen there.”
But in a statement on Saturday, Sheinbaum said that his country “categorically rejected the white house slander against the Mexican government of having alliances with criminal organizations, as well as any intention of intervention in our territory.”
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“Mexico does not only want Fentanyl to reach the United States, but anywhere,” he read the statement. “Therefore, if the United States wants to fight criminal groups that traffic drugs and generate violence, we must work together in an integrated way, but always under the principles of shared responsibility, mutual trust, collaboration and, above all, respect for the Sovereignty, which is not negotiable. “
Canada Trudeau reduced the United States by encouraging Canadians to “buy Canada” and announcing their own set of $ 20 billion rates “of imported goods from the United States, including products, meats and cheeses.
“Now is the time to choose products made here in Canada,” Trudeau wrote to X. “Check the labels. Let’s make our part. Where can we, choose Canada.”
