US President Donald Trump said his plan Impose 25% scanning prices On imports from Canada and Mexico, “on time” because the two countries are continuing the efforts to avoid the imminent tax which was almost put in place in early February.
“We are on time with the prices, and that evolves very quickly,” Trump told the journalists in the White House on Monday. “We are mistreated by many countries, not just Canada and Mexico.”
The prices should take effect on March 4, a date on which Trump has repeated several times in recent weeks.
These prices were among the first floating following the re -election of Trump last November, the president offering 25% tariffs on Canadian goods and 10% on energy exports.
But Trump’s comments saying that prices would take effect in a few days is not the first time that he has made such comments, only for modifications to be made at the eleventh hour.
In the days preceding Trump’s initial plan to impose prices on February 4, the president seemed to show no factory sign.
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However, only a few hours before the prices took effect, Mexico announced that it had entered into an agreement with Trump to prevent prices. Shortly after, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on social networks that Canada also paused.
However, Trump seemed firm on his plan on March 4 in the comments on Monday.
“The prices go ahead, in time, on time, it is an abuse that has taken place for many years,” he said.
This threat comes as Canada and Mexico have taken measures to strengthen border security and slow down fentanyl traffic, the two ask Trump and reasoning behind his threatened prices.
This included the appointment of a fentanyl tsar by Canada to coordinate the fight against smuggling of mortal opioids and reclassify several drug cartels as terrorist stirs. He also deployed drones, helicopters and other surveillance technologies at his border with the United States
Mexico began to deploy up to 10,000 soldiers of the National Guard at its northern border as part of its agreement with the United States, an agreement that President Claudia Sheinbaum said also called the United States to work To stop the flow of firearms in Mexico.
If prices should take effect, Canada promised an answer in the form of reprisalsThe federal government having published on February 2, a list of goods which it would target first were the prices of the wings instead.
Canada is also faced with the 25% prices potential on steel and aluminum from March 12, Trump also threatening a 25% potential rate on non -American cars and pharmaceutical products.
– With Reuters and Associated Press files, and Ashleigh Stewart from Global News
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