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President Donald Trump said Monday that I swept us duty in imports of Canada and Mexico “Advance” when a month delay in its implementation expires next week.
“The tariffs advance in time, on time,” Trump said when asked at a white house conference if the postponed tariffs in the two commercial partners of the United States would soon come back into force.
The president said that the United States has taken advantage of “foreign nations in” almost everything “, and reiterated his plan to impose calls. reciprocal tariffs.
“Then the tariffs will continue, yes, and we will invent a lot of territory,” Trump said.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, delivers comments during a joint press conference with the French president Emmanuel Macron in the East Room of the White House on February 24, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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Trump signed executive orders on February 1 imposing 25% rates in products from Mexico and Canada, as well as 10% of duties over Canadian energy.
The president, who has praised the use of tariffs as a negotiation tool and a source of income, based the orders on the alleged failures of Mexico and Canada to stop crime and drug trafficking in their respective US borders.
But Trump stopped the new tariffs two days later, after Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum and the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, made separate promises to boost their border measurement efforts.
Triumph, advertisement The new Agreements in Social truth On February 3, he said that tariffs on Canadian goods would stop for 30 days, while tariffs on Mexican imports would be postponed for a month.
He said that during that interval, his administration would participate in negotiations with Mexico and follow a “final economic agreement with Canada.”
Trump, in his first month that breaks the norm in office, also applied 10% tariffs to Chinese imports and announced a plan to impose “reciprocal rates” to US business partners. China has already taken reprisals with its own specific tariffs on US imports, fanning fears that a commercial war between the two adverse superpowers could increase rapidly.
A similar fear has been developed with respect to Mexico and Canada, which are among the closest allies in the United States and the main commercial partners.
Before Trump stopped his tariffs on the two American neighbors, both Trudeau and Sheinbaum announced plans to install retaliation tariffs on American imports.
