On Tuesday, November 26, during her usual morning press conference, the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, read a letter that she assured she would send to the president-elect of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
In this way, the Mexican president intends to respond to Trump’s threats about imposing a 25% tariff on Mexican products entering the United States.
In her letter, Claudia Sheinbaum addresses issues such as migration, fentanyl trafficking, and tariffs.
“For each tariff, another will come in response”
President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to Donald Trump in her letter that “for each tariff, another one will come in response” and she also rejected Trump’s “threats.”
“President Trump, it is not with threats or tariffs that the migration phenomenon or drug use in the United States will be addressed. Cooperation and mutual economic understanding are required for these great challenges. One tariff will be followed by another in response, and so on until we put common companies at risk,” Sheinbaum said.
Claudia Sheinbaum read at her morning press conference the letter that she is sending to Donald Trump, who on Monday, November 25th, announced that one of his first executive orders will be to impose 25% tariffs on “all products” from Mexico and Canada, until the “invasion” of illegal migrants and drugs, particularly fentanyl, is “stopped.”
Mexican president offers dialogue to Trump
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum also expressed her willingness to dialogue with President-elect Donald Trump but warned that if the new US government imposes tariffs on Mexico, her administration will respond with a similar measure.
The Mexican president affirmed that “cooperation and mutual understanding” are required to face the challenges of the migration phenomenon and drug use in the US.
Demonstrating the arguments put forward by Trump, Claudia Sheinbaum said that according to figures from the US Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP), encounters with migrants on the US southern border have been reduced by 75% from December 2023 to November 2024.
Likewise, the president highlighted the actions that the Mexican authorities have undertaken to combat fentanyl trafficking and recalled that synthetic drugs enter “illegally from Asian countries,” to which she stated that “international collaboration is urgent.”
If Trump fulfills his threats, the impact would be felt especially in the United States with a drastic increase in prices on several products, from gasoline and automobiles to agricultural products. But of course, Mexico would not escape the economic consequences.
Cross-border trade between Mexico and the United States is at its peak, with transactions exceeding US$800 billion annually.
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