Petro orders 25 % to upload tariffs to US products imported by Colombia

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petroordered this Sunday to increase by 25 % tariffs on US imports, in response to the decision of its American counterpart, Donald Trumpto impose 25 % tariffs on all Colombian products.

“He ordered (sic) to the Minister of Foreign Trade raising import tariffs from the US in 25 %. The ministry should help direct our exports to everyone different from the US. Our exports must be expanded, ”Petro said in the social network X.

The diplomatic crisis unleashed after Petro did not allow this Sunday to enter two planes with US citizens as long as they do not receive a “dignified” treatment.

In response to Petro’s decision, Trump ordered the imposition of 25 % tariffs on all Colombian products and said that in a week “they will rise to 50 %.”

He also announced visa restrictions for the Petro government and his party, possible economic sanctions to the country and “inspections” to Colombian citizens and goods that arrive in the US.

You have to “be marketers of our products”

In that sense, Petro invited the “foreign Colombian communities to be marketers of our products” to apparently try to compensate for market loss in the United States.

“North American products whose price will rise within the national economy must be replaced by national production, the Government will help in this purpose,” added the president.

Petro had already recently questioned some of Trump’s decisions or policies, and last Tuesday he called “dangerous” the comment made by the White House on Latin America, region on which the American ruler said: “We do not need them ”

The differences between the United States and Colombia, which had agreed to send these two flights with deported The history of the United States ”.