USA and China LIBER COMMERCIAL WARED While tariffs are activated to Mexico and Canada

Escalada in the Commercial War: the US President Donald Trump The tariffs to China rose to 20%, which replied; and let the pause expire in customs rates to Mexico and Canada, which falls into force on Tuesday.

In the absence of an agreement, Trump He warned that the customs rates of 25% to the goods of their neighbors and partners in the Free Trade Agreement of North America, the T-MEC, except the Canadian energy products taxed at a lower rate, would apply on March 4.

Shortly before expiring the deadline, the Republican magnate declared that “There is no room”Maneuver to avoid the tariffs that initially imposed on February 3, before pausing them for a month in search of solutions to migratory problems and drug entry in the United States.

“What they will have to do is build their car factories (…) and other things in the United States“, said.

Mexican reaction

The Government of Mexico reported Tuesday that it shows measures “Tariff and non -tariff”In retaliation to the taxes of 25% imposed by the Trump government.

“We have decided to respond with tariff and non -tariff measures that I will announce in Public Square next Sunday”President Claudia Sheinbaum said during her usual morning press conference.

“It is not in any way the purpose of initiating an economic or commercial confrontation that unfortunately is the opposite of what we should be doing, that is, to integrate more our economies”He added.

Mexico delivered some of the best -known jailed drug boundaries to the United States and deployed thousands of military at the border during the last weeks, among other measures, in an attempt to avoid tariffs.

The president said that “There is no reason, reason, or justification”That Trump’s decision supports to impose tariffs on Mexico.

“We have said it in different forms, cooperation and coordination yes, subordination and interventionism no. Mexico is respected”He emphasized.

Tariffs will affect more than US $ 918,000 million in US imports in Canada and Mexico.

Put to China

Trump also rose to 20% additional tariffs to China, initially set at 10%. Beijing responded immediately, announcing that it will impose supplementary levies of 10 and 15% to several food imports from the United States such as soybeans, wheat or chicken.

“If the United States (…) persists in raising a tariff war, a commercial war, or any other type of war, the Chinese part will fight it until the end”Said a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lin Jian.

Washington reproaches China his “inability” for “fight Fentanil’s avalanche”, A synthetic opioid that kills tens of thousands of people per year in the United States.

“Existential threat”

For Canada, customs rates are a “Existential threat”, In the words of Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly. “Thousands of jobs are at stake”He warned.

Therefore, the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, warned that if the tariffs enter their country “It will respond from midnight applying 25% levies to US $ 155,000 million in American goods. ”

The Canadian government ensures that less than 1% of fentanil and migrants who enter illegally in the United States do so through its border, but it has still tried to please Trump, with a plan to improve border security and the appointment of a tsar to coordinate the fight against fentanil.

A European Union spokesman, Olof Gill, said Tuesday that tariffs to Mexico and Canada “They threaten deeply integrated supply chains, investment flows and economic stability on both sides of the Atlantic”

Therefore, he asked the United States toreconsider your approach and instead work for a rules -based solution and that is for the benefit of all parties. ”

Price climb

Consumers could feel the prices effects, thus complicating Trump’s campaign promises to lower inflation. Industrialists already begin to notice them.

“Price increases have been accelerated by tariffs, which has caused delays in new orders, interruptions on suppliers and impacts on inventories”, Said Timothy Fiore, in charge of the ISM index survey, which measures the activity of the manufacturing sector.

For now, tariffs mainly impact manufacturers of the chemical sectors, transport, machines, appliances and food.