Mexico suggests it would impose its own tariffs to retaliate against any Trump tariffs
President Claudia Sheinbaum suggested Tuesday that Mexico could retaliate with tariffs of its own, after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose 25% tariffs on Mexican goods if the country doesn바카라 게임 웹사이트t stop the flow of drugs and migrants across the border.
Sheinbaum said she was willing to engage in talks on the issues, but said drugs were a U.S. problem.
바카라 게임 웹사이트One tariff would be followed by another in response, and so on until we put at risk common businesses,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Sheinbaum said, referring to U.S. automakers that have plants on both sides of the border.
She said Tuesday that Mexico had done a lot to stem the flow of migrants, noting 바카라 게임 웹사이트caravans of migrants no longer reach the border.바카라 게임 웹사이트 She also said Mexico had worked to stem the flow of drugs, like the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl, even though 바카라 게임 웹사이트it is a problem of public health and consumption in your country바카라 게임 웹사이트s society.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Sheinbaum바카라 게임 웹사이트s bristly response suggests that Trump faces a much different Mexican president than he did in his first term.
Back in late 2018, former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was a charismatic, old-school politician who developed a chummy relationship with Trump. The two were eventually able to strike a deal in which Mexico helped keep migrants away from the border 바카라 게임 웹사이트 and received other countries바카라 게임 웹사이트 deported migrants 바카라 게임 웹사이트 and Trump backed down on the threats.
But Sheinbaum, who took office Oct. 1, is a stern leftist ideologue trained in radical student protest movements, and appears less willing to pacify or mollify Trump.
However, it's not clear how serious Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트s threat is. The U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement forbids just imposing tariffs on other member countries. And it바카라 게임 웹사이트s not clear whether the economy could even tolerate sudden levies on imports: Auto plants on both sides of the border rely on each other for parts and components; some production lines could screech to a halt.
바카라 게임 웹사이트It is unacceptable and would cause inflation and job losses in Mexico and the United States,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Sheinbaum said.
