President Donald Trump told reporters hours after taking office that he was considering levying a blanket duty on Mexico and Canada on Feb. 1.
While much about the threatened tariffs is still unclear, experts predict they would be bad news for all three economies, with few winners.
President Claudia Sheinbaum is detaining more migrants, seizing more fentanyl and positioning her country as a key ally against China. But the U.S. stance has shifted, too.
SAN DIEGO — Migrants waiting to enter the US using former Joe Biden’s CBP One app broke down in tears after their appointments were canceled the moment President Trump took office Monday – just the first of the sweeping border actions the new administration prepared for the first day.
President Donald Trump decided to postpone his promise of implementing a 25% tariff on all goods imported from Canada and Mexico, his latest effort to curb illegal immigration and the flow of fentanyl.
By David Lawder, Andrea Shalal and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump did not immediately impose tariffs on Monday as previously promised but said he was thinking about imposing 25% duties on imports from Canada and Mexico on Feb.
Trump underscored his intention to use tariffs, a tax on foreign goods, as a tool of international economic policy and an increasingly vital source of government revenue.
President Donald Trump said Monday that he expects to put 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico starting on Feb. 1, while declining to flesh out his plans for taxing Chinese imports.
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it was reinstating the "remain in Mexico" program, resuming an initiative that forced non-Mexican asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for the resolution of their U.S. cases.
President Donald Trump said the Gulf of Mexico will be called the Gulf of America, while the Denali mountain peak will revert to its former name, Mount McKinley.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he was thinking of imposing 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico because they were allowing many people to cross the border as well as fentanyl.