The United States and its largest trade partners have come into the new era of protectionism on Sunday, such as Canada, Mexico and China said they would adopt a counter -art Against the new tariffs charged by President Trump.
From honey to tomato and from clothing to toilet bowls, a wide range of American goods that exceeding the border in Canada worth more than $ 100 billion will soon be hit by 25 five -pierological tariffs.
“We don’t want to be here,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a gloomy television address from Ottawa on Saturday night, which spoke about deep relationships between neighbors. “We didn’t ask for it.”
On Sunday, China said she would “take appropriate countermeasures to firmly protect his rights and interests.” He also said he would take legal measures at the World Trade Organization.
And u Video Posted on Sunday, President Claudia Sheinbaum from Mexico said she would discover the first steps of the so -called Plan B on Monday if an agreement with the United States could not be reached. Mrs. Sheinbaum had previously warned of “tariff and non -traditional measures.”
The politics that Mr. Trump announced on Saturday hit Canada and Mexico with a 25 percent tariff with a cutting of Canadian energy and oil exports. They will be taxed to 10 percent. He also put a 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods.
He also ordered the end of Americans’ ability to buy up to $ 800 of goods a day from each country without paying tariffs. It was a blow to giant companies that built Internet companies like a theme and Shein by a boat directly from factories in China to US homes, bypassing US traders.
The fees should be entry into force just after midnight on Tuesday, and will be added at the top of the existing tariffs. Removal of Baldan treatment of small shipments from all three countries means that their customers will have to start paying not only new tariffs, but all the other many tariffs that have accumulated on clothing and other wide consumption.
Mr Trump defended Tariff on Sunday, admitting that they could have consequences. “Will there be pain? Yes, maybe (and maybe not!), “He said in the early morning post on social media.
Mr. Trump said the tariffs were intended to reduce the flow of deadly opioid fental across the border as well as migrants. (Traffic and people and illegal drugs from Canada, however, is very small.) If there is economic pain, he suggested, it will pay off.
When Mr. Trump imposed tariffs on China during his first term in the White House, some studies revealed that some of the costs were transferred to US consumers. Suppliers in China have also reduced their prices in many cases to compensate for part of the tariff cost.
Most Republicans in Congress were silent or praised by Mr. Trump’s tariffs, even when their voters express anxiety due to growing prices.
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, a rare Republican who regularly criticizes the president, was again an exception. “Tariffs are simply taxes,” he said on social media. “Conservatives have once united against new taxes. Store taxation will mean smaller stores and higher prices.”
If other Republicans divided Mr. Paul’s belief that the economy could hit, they kept it for themselves.
“Ohio is open to work and will develop a red carpet for any company production in America!” Senator Bernie Moreno, a Republican from Ohija, wrote on social media.
The party leaders also fell in line.
“I support what the president is doing,” Republican number 2 in Senate, John Barrasso from Wyoming, said on Sunday on Sunday, on Sunday at Fox News. “We have to get rid of the fental. We have to tell China, as well as Mexico, as well as Canada, to get Fentanil out of our country.”
Democrats spent a weekend, hitting a message that Mr. Trump was responsible for creating life in America more expensive.
“In a reckless move,” said Gabe Vasquez representative, Democrat of Novi Mexico, “the President just raised the price you pay for the gas, the truck you drive, a computer for your small business and everything in the store, from the store, from the store, Food products, Avocado in Tekila. “
It was uncertain how much the success of China could find in the World Trade Organization, which lost much of its ability to cope with such legal challenges since the United States began to block the appointment of judges in the first term of Mr. Trump. The Appeal body WTO lost the judges that their conditions had expired and failed to form a quorum to hear cases from the end of 2019.
The organization can still form panels to compile a report on the merits of cases, but reports can no longer go into the appeal body makes a legal binding decision.
When Mr. Trump imposed tariffs on Chinese goods during his first term, China responded each time to US exports, but Since China sells much more to the United States than it buys, it quickly run out of goods to which the tariffs will put.
Last month, US law officers called for the end of immovable shipments from China, for which they were blamed for allowing significant quantities of fental and related supplies to the United States, because the shipments receive little or no inspection by customs agents.
In a statement on Sunday, the Chinese Ministry of Trade urged the United States to “watch and solve their fentanil and other issues in an objective and rational way, instead of threatening other tariff countries.” The Ministry of Foreign Affairs defended the Chinese record of the matter, saying that he had led the world when strict companies related to the fentanyl in 2019 imposed strict regulations.
The true cause of the epidemic of the death of the fantanil in the United States, China claims, is an American failure to suppress drug addiction, not high production or export of chemicals that mostly used illegal laboratory laboratories to do a cure to do a cure.
Mrs. Sheinbaum, a Mexican president, took a similar attitude on Sunday.
“If they want to act,” she said, “they should not direct their visibility to Mexico, but in their country, where they did nothing to stop the illegal sale of these and other drugs,” she said.
Mrs. Sheinbaum said that Mr. Trump’s response was still waiting for her offer to establish a working group of security and health officers from both countries to solve problems with Fentanil.
An announcement of the new Canadian tariffs on Saturday, Mr. Trudeau directly addressed the Americans, saying that he would hurt US tariffs on Canadian goods.
“This is a choice that will, yes, harm the Canadians, but besides, it will have real consequences for you, the American people,” he said. “As I consistently said: tariffs against Canada will threaten your jobs, potentially excluding US automatic installation facilities and other production facilities.”
The Canadian Provinces Ontario and the new Scotland announced that they would withdraw American, beer, wine and alcoholic beverages from the Government’s alcoholic beverages. The Ontario Alcoholic Control Committee imports about $ 1 billion – about $ 690 million – valuable US products every year.
One Canadian province took the targeted approach, singing out the areas of the United States in which the support of Mr. Trump’s policies was particularly strong.
In British Colombia, Prime Minister, David Eby, has announced that the province will stop the sale of alcohol produced in “Red States”.
Annie Karni Contribution to Washington Reporting, Ian Austen from Windsor, Ontario and James Wagner from Mexico City,
