Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said the American prices on her country were delayed by a month after a conversation with US President Donald Trump, a declaration confirmed by the White House.
“Mexico will immediately strengthen the northern border with 10,000 members of the National Guard, to stop mexical drug trafficking in the United States, in particular fentanyl”, ” Sheinbaum posted on X.
“The United States undertakes to work to stop the traffic of high power weapons in Mexico.”
The Mexican president added that the two countries will maintain dialogue and “our teams will start working today in two areas: security and trade”.
Trump ordered 25% prices on all Mexican products over the weekend, Mexico saying that it would respond with clean prices without detailed on which products.
But Trump confirmed on social networks that the prices on the goods of Mexico will be interrupted for a month for the negotiations, a few hours before taking effect.
He said the talks would be led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lux and high -level representatives of Mexico.
“I can’t wait to participate in these negotiations, with President Sheinbaum, while we are trying to conclude an” agreement “between our two countries,” said the president.
The break added to the drama while Trump’s prices against Canada and China are expected to come into force on Tuesday. The uncertainty remains on the sustainability of any transaction and if the prices are a warning sign of a wider trade war, because Trump has promised more taxes to come.
The economist and former Mexican trade negotiator, Luis de la Calle, said that “the successful integration” of Canadian, American and Mexican economies will resist Donald Trump. De la Calle adds that the biggest challenge on the American market is its competition with China and that the rupture of North American trade is a “punishment for American consumers”.
Trump posted on social networks that he spoke on Monday morning with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and that “spoke to him again at 3:00 pm”
Earlier, he repeated his complaints that Canada was not cooperative, despite decades of friendship and partnerships between the two nations.
“Canada does not even allow banks to open or do business there,” said Trump. “What is it? A lot of things of this type, but it is also a drug war, and hundreds of thousands of people died in the United States of drugs flowing through the borders of Mexico and from Canada. “
Trump also mocked Trudeau several times, the appellant “Governor Trudeau” and saying that Canada can avoid prices by becoming the 51st state.
Canada said it would apply reprisals on American products, the federal government publishing a detailed list of reprisal rates over 30 billion dollars in goods.
More to come.