Mexico City – The presidents of Mexico and the United States said on Thursday that the punishment of new rates on Mexican goods that would be exported across the border would be deterred 90 days because the two countries continue the negotiations on the controversial levies.
The long-awaited announcement came after Presidents Trump and Claudia Sheinbaum had a telephone conversation in the morning, the last in a series of phone calls in which the Mexican leader encouraged her American counterpart not to impose more rates on her nation-the largest trading partner of the United States.
Trump called the telephone conversation ‘very successful’ in a message about the truth of Truth Social, and added: “More and more we get to know and understand each other.” The two North American leaders have to meet each other personally.
Sheinbaum said on X and said that they had “a very good call” with Trump and that the two nations agreed to keep talking for 90 days “to build a long -term agreement in accordance with the dialogue.”
In his comments, Trump said that a lot of Mexican import would continue to be confronted with a rate of 25% whose president has said to force Mexico to reduce fentanyl, the synthetic opioid coupled to tens of thousands of deaths in the United States.
Mexico is fighting to reverse the proposed 25% rates for auto -import and 50% rates for the entry of copper, steel and aluminum, among other things. Trump said that those rates with the 25% fentanyl tax-yours remain during the 90-day negotiation period.
However, many Mexican goods are still exported tariff-free according to the conditions of the 2020 United States-Mexico-Canada agreement, which Trump signed during his first term.
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