President-elect Donald Trump threatened Monday evening to impose 25% tariffs on all products from Canada and Mexico to bring the two countries to better control their borders with the United States.
In a post on the Truth Social network, Trump estimated that “thousands of people are arriving from Mexico and Canada, bringing crime and drugs in their wake” and entering the United States through “our borders which are now open”.
The 47th US president, whose inauguration is scheduled for January 20, has promised that one of the first executive orders he intends to sign on his first day in the White House will concern “customs duties of 25% on all products from Mexico and Canada”.
These tariffs will remain in effect “until drugs, especially fentanyl, and all illegal immigrants stop this invasion of our country,” Trump added.
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He stressed that the two countries bordering the United States have “the absolute right and power to easily resolve this problem.”
In another publication, the next American president noted that Chinese fentanyl is flowing into the United States, particularly via Mexico, “at levels never seen before”.
“We will impose additional duties on China of 10%, on top of any other tariffs they already pay on all their products entering the United States until this situation ceases,” he said. affirmed.
Trump had promised, throughout his electoral campaign, to increase customs duties on Chinese, but also European, products in order to encourage “Made in America” and to boost internal production and consumption.
With MAP
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