Mexican president says the tariffs were postponed after a ‘good’ conversation with Trump – National

Update from February. 3, 2025 at 16:59 East: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the US tariffs in Canada will be “paused” for 30 days. Read more about the announcement here.

Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum revealed that she had a “good conversation” with US President on Monday morning Donald Trump, “With great respect for our relationship and sovereignty.”

IN fast At X, Sheinbaum said the two had reached a “series of agreements” during the interview, two days after the Mexican president ordered the retail retribution In response to the USA’s decision hit 25 percent of the lean on all the goods coming from Mexico As trade war broke out between two neighbors.

“1. Mexico will immediately enhance the northern border with 10,000 members of the National Guard to prevent drug trafficking from Mexico to the United States, especially Fentanil, “Sheinbaum wrote, explaining agreements.

“2. The United States is dedicated to work on preventing trade in powerful Mexico weapons. 3. Our teams will start working on two fronts today: safety and trade, ”she continued.

Sheinbaum also said the fourth agreement to be the United States “pausing tariffs in a month.”

Trump confirmed on Truthsocial that they had a “very friendly conversation” and that “they would stop the expected tariffs immediately for a month.”

“Furthermore, we agreed that we would stop the expected tariffs for a monthly period during which we will have negotiations led by State Secretary Marco Rubio, Secretary of the Scott Bessent Treasury, and the Howard Lutnick Store Secretary and the High Mexico representatives. I look forward to participating in these negotiations, with President Sheinbaum, as we try to achieve a ‘agreement’ between our two countries’ wrote.

Sunday Sheinbaum said the reason should overcome the day after her government and The US announced the tariff Against each other, lifting her fist into the air, because she said she was not missing the courage to answer.

Trump said on Sunday that the big tariffs imposed by Mexico, Canada and China can cause “some pains” for Americans, because Wall Street and the biggest American shopping partners signaled the hope that the trade war would not last long.

In a speech outside the Mexican capital on Sunday, Sheinbaum raised a fist in the air and said that trade penalties first ordered Trump They will hit their people with higher prices.

She said her government had preferred a dialogue, not confronting a top trade partner in the north.

In a a long statement On X, Sheinbaum addressed Trump’s statement that the Mexico tariffs were an answer to illegal immigration and a “alliance” between drug trafficking organizations and the Mexican government.

“We categorically reject the defamatory claim that the Mexican government has alliances with criminal organizations, as well as any attempt to intervene in our territory,” she wrote Sheinbaum O X. “If there is anywhere such a covenant exists, it is in the Frames of the weapon in the United States To the states that sell high weapons with these criminal groups. “

Sheinbaum said that the Mexican government “seized more than 40 tons of drugs in four months,” including “20 million doses of fantanila” and “arrested more than ten thousand people associated with these groups.”

“If US government and his agencies want to solve a serious problem of consuming fental in their country, for example, you could fight the sale of intoxicating drugs on the streets of their main cities – something they do illegal activity, which caused significant damage to their population, “she added.

Sheinbaum also suggested that now they could “start a huge campaign to prevent drug consumption and protect youth” as Mexico did.

“Consuming and distribution of drugs occur in their own country, which is a public health problem they have not solved. Furthermore, the synthetic opioid epidemic in the United States is derived from the non -select prescribing of these drugs, authorized by the Food and Medicines Directorate (FDA), which has shown a legal case against a pharmaceutical company, “Sheinbaum wrote.

“Mexico does not seek conflict. We believe in the cooperation of neighboring countries. Mexico does not want Fentanil to reach the United States – or anywhere else. Therefore, if the United States really want to fight against criminal groups that operate drugs and encourage violence, we have to work together on a comprehensive way, but always under the principles of common liability, mutual trust, and, above all, respect for sovereignty-who cannot be neglected.

Sheinbaum suggested Trump to set up a working group with their best safety and public health teams.

“Tariffs will not solve these problems. Instead, we have to talk and negotiate, just as we have been solving migration with the American State Department in recent weeks, always respecting the human rights on our side,” she said.

“I instruct the Secretary of Economics to implement Plan B, which we have prepared, including tariffs and non-Tariff measures to defend the interests of Mexico,” she wrote, not stating which US goods would target her government.

“Nothing by force; all through reason and law,” she concluded her post.

On Sunday, Governors from Mexican 31 countries and Mexico City supported Sheinbaum in a joint statement.

“We energy condemning the accusations suggesting that there is a connection between our government and the cartel trading,” it is said. “These claims are not only unfounded, but also neglect the great, verifiable efforts that Mexico has invested in the fight against organized crime,” the statement said.

Mexican Minister of Economy, Marcelo Ebard, said on X to get hurt to get hurt.

“The accusation of the Mexican government to be an ally of Narko [traffickers] is – apart from an insult to our country – an excuse to distract US public opinion from a huge mistake in imposing disturbed tariffs Mexico and the North American companies that work here. Shooting in the foot, “Ebard wrote.

Prime minister Justin Trudeau And Sheinbaum spoke on the phone on Saturday after Trump’s administration imposed new tariffs – 25 percent on goods from Canada and Mexicowith a lower rate of 10 percent for Canadian oil and 10 percent on imports from China.

Trudeau’s office said in a statement that Canada and Mexico agreed “to increase strong bilateral relations” between their countries. Canadian officials had an extensive dialogue with their Mexican colleagues, but a senior Canadian official said he would not go so far as to say that the tariff responses were coordinated.

“Now is the time to choose products made right here in Canada,” Trudeau posted on Sunday on X. “Check the stickers. Let’s do your part. Wherever we can, select Canada.”

Trump gives a great political bet that his actions will not significantly aggravate inflation, cause financial thresholds that could destabilize the world economy or cause a voter back.

Trump pays tribute to the promises that are at the core of his philosophy of economic and national security. The announcement has shown their seriousness about questions because some Trump’s allies have declined to threat to larger taxes on imports as mere negotiating tactics.

Trump said the Government should increase more of its income than tariff, as it did before the income tax became part of the US Constitution in 1913. In spite of economic evidence, he claims that they were now in their richest in 1890 under then President William McKinley.

–With files from Reuters and Associated Press