On the day of his inauguration, US President-elect Donald Trump will sign an executive order imposing a 25 percent tariff on all goods imported from Mexico and Canada.
He writes this in a post on his social media, Truth Social.
– On January 20, as one of my first many announcements, I will sign all the necessary documents needed to impose a 25 percent tariff on all goods imported from Mexico and Canada, he writes.
In the post, he further writes that the goods today enter the US over what he calls “ridiculously open borders”.
The tariffs will apply until Mexico and Canada have cracked down on drugs, including fentanyl, and the migrants who cross the border to the United States illegally, writes the future president.
– Both Mexico and Canada have the power to easily solve this long-simmering problem. We demand that they use this power, and until then it is only fitting that they pay a high price, he writes.
Donald Trump threatened during the presidential election campaign to introduce a tariff of up to 15 percent on imports of products from Mexico if the country’s government does not stop the large amount of fentanyl that is sent to the United States.
Fentanyl is an opioid pain reliever. According to US authorities, up to 100,000 people lose their lives to opioids every year in the US.
In another post, Donald Trump writes that he also plans to increase customs duties on goods entering the United States from China by ten percentage points.
He justifies the plans for the increased tariffs on Chinese goods by the fact that China sends “huge amounts of drugs, especially fentanyl, into the United States through Mexico”.
Donald Trump has announced during the presidential election campaign in the United States that he will raise tariffs on goods from abroad – including Chinese imports.
China’s foreign ministry warned after the presidential election that there would be no winners if a trade war breaks out between the US and China.
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Source: www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk
