The president of the United States, Donald Trumpsaid Wednesday that duty Of 25% planned for imports from Mexico and Canada, they will enter into force on April 2, if for March 4, an initially planned date, the two countries show that there have been advances on the border.
Asked about the entry into force of these taxes, he replied at the first cabinet meeting of his mandate: “April 2”. “For Mexico and Canada?”A journalist told him. “Correct. And for everything”
The Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, recalled that there is currently one “pause“Until March 4 for the tariffs planned for these two countries for fentanyl and immigration traffic on the border and that if they show what they have done,”An excellent possible“Another pause is possible.
“The great transaction as a whole is April 2, but related to fentanyl, they are working hard on the border. At the end of those 30 days they have to prove the president who have satisfied him about it. If they have done so, there will be a pause“, held.
Trump He added that his intention is not to stop the tariffs and recalled that although the planned date was April 1, the day of the innocent in the United States, he delayed it one day because it is “A little superstitious”
“Tariffs continue, not all, but many. They have taken advantage of as a country for a long period of time. We have applied tariffs and we have not done it”Said the Republican leader.
Tariffs to Mexico and Canada They were going to take effect on March 4, after having postponed them a month after these two countries agreed to increase border control to stop migratory and fentanyl flows.
“It is now very difficult to cross the border, but the damage is already done”Trump insisted.
The tariffs that had been announced for April 2 are those contemplated against the automobile sector. That plan, informed on February 14, occurred one day after he signed a memorandum to impose “reciprocal tariffs”To countries that tax American products, with the aim of equalizing the rates that these nations apply to US exports.
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Source: Gestion
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