Feb 04, 2025 10:47 PM IST
Trump on Saturday introduced sweeping measures in opposition to the US’s three largest buying and selling companions: Canada, China and Mexico.
Mexico started Tuesday the ten,000-strong border troop deployment it had promised US President Donald Trump in alternate for delaying a 25-percent tariff on exported items, President Claudia Sheinbaum stated.

“The deployment has already began,” she advised reporters a day after asserting a last-minute cope with Trump to tighten measures in opposition to unlawful migration and cross-border smuggling of the drug fentanyl.
Trump on Saturday introduced sweeping measures in opposition to the US’s three largest buying and selling companions: Canada, China and Mexico.
Its speedy neighbors have been to pay an export tariff of 25 p.c, the president introduced, and China a further 10 p.c on prime of current duties.
Canada and Mexico introduced reciprocal levies earlier than each international locations’ presidents managed to strike a cope with Trump Monday that noticed him delay the tariffs by a month.
Markets had slumped Monday after the weekend threats sparked fears of a worldwide commerce warfare.
Sheinbaum stated Tuesday troops had been taken from elements of the nation that “wouldn’t have as a lot of a safety drawback.”
Greater than 450,000 individuals have been murdered countrywide since Mexico launched a serious offensive in opposition to drug cartels in 2006.
The US border deployment “doesn’t depart the remainder of the nation with out safety,” the president insisted.

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