Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump signed an order on Saturday to impose rigorous prices on imports from Mexico, Canada and China, drawing rapid reprisals and a feeling of undeniable betrayal of the North American neighbors of the country while ‘A trade war broke out among the longtime allies.
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The republican president posted on social networks that the prices were necessary “to protect the Americans”, pressing the three nations to do more to brake the manufacture and export of illegal fentanyl and for Canada and Mexico to reduce the illegal immigration to the United States
The prices, if supported, could ensure that inflation gets worse, threatening the confidence that many voters have placed in Trump to reduce the prices of grocery store, petrol, housing, housing, cars and other goods as he promised. They also risked launching the global economy and Trump’s political mandate in the two -week bustle disturbances after his second term.
Trump has declared an economic emergency to place rights of 10% on all imports from China and 25% on imports from Mexico and Canada. Energy imported from Canada, including oil, natural gas and electricity, would be taxed at a rate of 10%. The order of Trump includes a mechanism to increase the rates billed by the United States against reprisals by other countries, which increases the spectrum of an even more serious economic disturbance.
“The measures taken today by the White House separated us instead of gathering us,” said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a dark tone when he announced that his country would put prices of 25% corresponding to 155 billions of US imports, including alcohol and fruits.
He has channeled the betrayal that many Canadians feel, reminding Americans that Canadian troops fought alongside them in Afghanistan and helped respond to a myriad of forest fire crises in California at Hurricane Katrina.
“We were still there with you, in mourning with you, the American people,” he said.
The president of Mexico also ordered reprisal rates.
“We categorically reject the slander of the White House according to which the Mexican government has alliances with criminal organizations, as well as any intention to meddle in our territory,” wrote Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum in an article on X while saying that she had asked her secretary to the economy to implement the implementation of the implementation of the implementation of the implementation of the implementation of the implementation of the economy of The implementation of the implementation of the implementation of the implementation of its connection to the economy of the implementation of its implementation of the economy. A response that includes reprisals and other measures to defend the interests of Mexico.
“If the American government and its agencies wanted to approach the serious consumption of fentanyl in their country, they could fight against the sale of drugs in the streets of their big cities, which they do not do and the money laundering that this illegal activity generates which has done so much trouble its population. »»
The Prime Minister of the Canadian Province of British Columbia, David Eby, specifically called on residents to stop buying liqueurs from the United States and said that he suppressed American alcohol brands of the store shelves government in response to prices.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said that the country’s government “deplores firmly and is opposed to this decision and would take the countermeasures necessary to defend its legitimate rights and interests”.
China has started to regulate fentanyl drugs as a class of substances controlled in 2019 and has led “cooperation against opponents in the United States,” said the US government to correct what it consider as unjustified actions.
The Ministry of Commerce in China has declared that it would be a legal action with the World Trade Organization for “unjustified practices of the United States” and would take measures to protect its rights and interests.
The prices will come into force Tuesday, setting up a confrontation in North America which could potentially sabotage economic growth. A new analysis of the Yale LAB budget in Yale has established possible damage to the American economy, saying that the average household would lose the equivalent of $ 1,170 in tax income. Economic growth would slow down and inflation would worsen, and the situation could be even worse with reprisals from other countries.
Democrats quickly warned that any inflation in the future was Trump’s actions.
“You are concerned about the prices of the grocery store. Don increases the prices with its prices, “wrote the Democrat leader of the New York Schuck Schumer Senate in a series of messages on X.” You are concerned about tomato prices. Wait until Trump’s Mexico prices increase the prices of your tomatoes, “read another. “You are concerned about the prices of cars. Wait until Trump’s Canada’s prices increase the prices of your car, “read another.
A senior American administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to brief journalists, said that the lower energy rate reflected the desire to minimize the disruptive increases in the price of petrol or services audiences. It is a sign that the White House officials include the bet they take on inflation. Prix peaks under former president Joe Biden led to the frustration of voters who helped return Trump to the White House.
The ordinance signed by Trump did not contain any mechanism to grant exceptions, said the manager, a possible blow to house manufacturers that count on Canadian wood as well as farmers, car manufacturers and other industries.
The manager has not provided specific benchmarks that could be met to raise new prices, saying that only the best measure would be fewer Americans who die from fentanyl.
The command would also allow rates on Canadian imports of less than $ 800. Imports lower than this sum are currently able to cross the United States without customs and rights.
“It does not have much economic sense,” said William Reinsch, principal advisor to the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former US trade official. “Historically, most of our raw material prices have been low because we want to get cheaper materials, so our manufacturers will be competitive … Now, what is it talking about?” He talks about raw material prices. I do not receive the economy. ”
With prices, Trump honors promises that are at the heart of his philosophy of economic and national security. But the announcement showed its severity on the issue, because some Trump allies had expressed the threat of higher import taxes as simple negotiation tactics.
The president is preparing more import taxes in a sign that the prices will be part of his second term. Friday, he mentioned imported computer flea, steel, petroleum and natural gas, as well as copper, pharmaceutical drugs and imports from the European Union – movements that could mainly launch the United States against a large part of the world economy.
Trudeau warned against economic pains while prices take effect and encouraged Canadians to “choose Canadian products and services rather than Canadians”. But he also expressed optimism in the lasting relationship between the two countries.
“It will have real consequences for people, for workers on both sides of our border. We don’t want to be here. We have not asked for this, but we will not go back to stand up both for Canadians and for incredible successful relations between Canada and the United States, “said Trudeau.
Boak reported to Palm Beach, Florida, Sherman reported to Mexico and Gillies reported in Toronto. The writer Associated Press Paul Wiseman in Washington contributed to this report.