Trump’s administration charges new tariffs to Mexico, Canada and China as critical to prevent Fentanil and other drugs From pouring to the US border, not a step in the International Trade War.
President Donald Trump imposes 25% of tariffs on all goods entering the United States from Mexico and Canada; 10% tariff on Canadian energy; and 10% of tariffs on all goods entering the US from China. These tariffs should take effect on Tuesday at midnight.
Trump defending Tariff, accusing Canada of “very abused towards the United States”
The president spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday morning, and is expected to talk to him at 3:00 pm on Monday.
President Donald Trump talks to reporters while signing executive commands at the oval office of the White House, on Friday, January 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
“Canada does not allow us banks to open or do business there,” Trump announced in his social on Monday. “What is it about? Many such things, but it’s also a drug war, and hundreds of thousands of people died in the United States -in drugs shedding the boundaries of Mexico and Canada.”
The president also spoke with Mexican President Claudija Sheinbaum on Monday morning – by talking to Trump that he refused to impose tariffs on Mexico for a month.
“It was a very friendly conversation in which she agreed to deliver 10,000 Mexican soldiers immediately on the border separated by Mexico and the United States,” Trump announced on his truth. “These soldiers will be specially marked to stop the flow of fental and illegal migrants to our country.”
“Furthermore, we agreed that we would stop the expected tariffs for a monthly period during which we will have negotiations led by State Secretary Marc Rubio, Scott Secretary Secretary, Scott Beesent and the Howard Lutnick Store and High Mexico representatives,” Trump wrote. “I look forward to participating in these negotiations, with President Sheinbaum, as we try to achieve a” agreement “between our two countries.”
On Sunday, Vice President JD Vance repeated a similar mood regarding drugs, posting on the X that Mexico “sends a ton of fental to our country. Canada recorded a huge increase in the trade of Fentanil across his border.”
“There are three ways of stopping it,” Vance wrote. “It’s nice to ask first, what we did. No there.”
He added, “We are now in the consequences.”
And Doug Burgum’s interior secretary said on Monday that the imposition of tariff “is not a commercial war with Canada, Mexico or China”.
Trump imposes tariffs to import from Canada, Mexico and China: ‘National Emergency Situation’
“This is a fentanil,” Burgum said at Fox & Friends. “We had a massive invasion of our country. We took mass victims. We lose almost 300 people a day to overdose death.”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with his elected President Trump at MAR-a-Laga in Florida in November 2024. To discuss topics such as economy, illegal immigration and tariffs. (Justin Trudeau X)
Burgum added: “President Trump wants to finish it.”
The President approved Tariffs on Saturday at an executive order. According to the Law on International Emergency Economic Force, and 25% additional tariffs It will be charged for imports from Canada and Mexico, with a 10% tariff to import from China.
In an executive order, Trump said Tariffs stem from “extraordinary threats represented by illegal aliens and drugs, including a deadly fentanil, [that] represents a national emergency situation. “
The tariffs have invited international criticisms of leaders and citizens in Canada and Mexico. During exchange with reporters on Sunday night, Trump accused Canada of being a “abuser” in the US in the sense of trade.
“Canada has been very abused for many years to the United States. They do not allow our banks,” Trump said. “And you know that Canada does not allow banks to enter, if you think. It’s pretty amazing. If we have an American bank, they don’t let them enter.”
“Canada was very difficult for energy oil. They basically do not allow our products on the farm. They do not allow many things. And we allow everything to go in as a street in one direction.”
Fentanil seized in Nogales, Arizona. Border agents and officers seized more than 1,900 pounds of illegal drugs in October 2022. (Customs and border patrol)
Trump also said that now he subsides for Canada “from a warehouse of about $ 200 billion a year.”
“And for what? What are we going to get out of that? We don’t get anything out of that,” he added. “I love the people of Canada. I disagree with the guidance of Canada and something will happen there.”
But in a statement on Saturday, Sheinbaum said her country “categorically rejected[s] Klever the White House against the Mexican government has alliances with criminal organizations, as well as any intention of intervention in our territory. “
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“Mexico not only does not want Fentanil to reach the United States, but anywhere,” the statement said. “Therefore, if the United States want to fight the criminal groups that make traffic drugs and create violence, we must work together in an integrated way, but always under the principles of common responsibility, mutual trust, cooperation and, above all, respect for sovereignty, which cannot be negotiate. “
The Canadian Trudeau has shifted now encouraging the Canadians to “buy Canada” and announcing their own set of tariffs at $ 20 billion “goods imported from the United States”, including products, meat and cheeses.
“Now is the time to choose products made right here in Canada,” Trudeau wrote on X. “Check the labels. Let’s do your part. Wherever we can, select Canada.”
