Donald Trump He continues with his tariff war to practically everyone. Although this Thursday Librated from it to the United Kingdomat the same time has announced that on March 4 they will be activated 25 % tariffs for Mexico and Canada and an additional 10 % for China (20% in total) by considering that none of the countries has made enough effort to combat the entry of fentanyl in the US.
The US president first announced the measure through his social network ‘social truth’ in which he announced that the measures would be applied from next Tuesday and not on April 2 as reported in the first instance. Subsequently, he has reaffirmed his position during an appearance before the media in the Oval Office in the company of the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, with which he has met in Washington.
The Republican maintained his position despite the fact that the high -level delegations of both Mexico and Canada were this Thursday in the US capital to convince the administration that their efforts against fentanyl are successful. When asked if he has detected progress to exempt Mexico and Canada from the tariff increase, he replied that “not at all, not in drugs”, although there have been improvements in terms of migrant crosses. “Drugs continue to arrive in our country and kill hundreds of thousands of people. Drugs come from Mexico; many of them also from China, not all, but many come from China,” Daddadotrump explained.
Besides, Trump has ruled out that his commercial policy can affect the pockets of Americans ensuring that when in his first term he applied tariffs to China his country entered “hundreds of millions of dollars” and did not have high inflation rates. “It is a myth. It is a myth that spread foreign countries who do not really like to pay tariffs,” he said.
However, the imposition of tariffs, also additional if applicable, has not felt good To the Chinese government, which has responded that it will take “all the necessary countermeasures” to “defend their legitimate rights and interests” before the rise to 20% of tariffs by Trump.
“China firmly opposes this measure,” the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said today in a statement. It indicates that from Beijing it has been declared “repeatedly” that “Unilateral tariffs violate the norms of the World Trade Organization (WTO)” and “undermine the multilateral trade system.” He also defends that “China is one of the countries with the strictest and most exhaustive drug control policies in the world” and that it has actively cooperated in this area with all the countries of the world “including the United States.”
“However, the US ignores the facts. It previously imposed a 10 % tariff on China for fentanyl and threatens new again. This behavior of ‘blame’ will not make their own problems be solved. Moreover, it will increase the burden on US companies and consumers and undermine the stability of the world industrial chain. If the United States insists on this path, China will take all the necessary countermeasures to defend their legitimate rights and interests, “the statement ditch.
Source: Lasexta
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