Mex­i­co, U.S. Make Agree­ment to Post­pone Tar­iffs

The pres­i­dent of Mex­i­co, Clau­dia Shein­baum, announced Mon­day morn­ing at her reg­u­lar press con­fer­ence that she had come to an agree­ment with Don­ald Trump to post­pone the levy­ing of tar­iffs by the U.S. in return for imple­ment­ing addi­tion­al secu­ri­ty mea­sures at the U.S.–Mexico bor­der. As part of the agree­ment, Mex­i­co will send 10,000 troops to serve in addi­tion­al bor­der-enforce­ment roles, while the U.S. will inves­ti­gate the ille­gal traf­fick­ing of firearms to Mex­i­can orga­nized crime. The 25 per­cent tar­iff on Mex­i­can imports, which had been planned to go into effect Tues­day, will be post­poned for one month as the two coun­tries nego­ti­ate a more per­ma­nent agree­ment.

Trump also announced the result of Mon­day morning’s call on his TRUTH social media account, describ­ing the con­ver­sa­tion as “very friend­ly.”

“I look for­ward to par­tic­i­pat­ing in those nego­ti­a­tions, with Pres­i­dent Shein­baum, as we attempt to achieve a ‘deal’ between our two coun­tries,” the pres­i­dent said.

The set­tle­ment with Mex­i­co joins the administration’s agree­ment with Venezuela that lib­er­at­ed six Amer­i­can pris­on­ers there and pro­vides for the repa­tri­a­tion of ille­gal immi­grants as well as Panama’s announce­ment that it will cease its par­tic­i­pa­tion in China’s Belt and Road ini­tia­tive as fruit of Trump’s diplo­mat­ic push to increase Amer­i­can pow­er and influ­ence in the West­ern Hemi­sphere.

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