Sunday, February 16th, 2025

US President Donald Trump announces plan to impose 25% tariff on Mexico, Canada from February 1


US President Donald Trump announced that his/her administration plans to impose a 25 percent tariff on imports from Mexico and Canada starting February 1, The Hill reported.

Asked about his/her thought process for imposing tariffs on two countries when signing executive orders, Trump responded, “We’re thinking in terms of 25 percent on Mexico and Canada because they allow a large number of people to come.” Allowing more fentanyl to come in.”

When asked about the deadline he/she said, “I think we will do it on February 1.”

During the final days of the 2024 campaign, Trump threatened to impose a 25 percent tariff on all imports from Mexico, the top trading partner with the US, unless the Mexican government reduces the flow of migrants to the southern border. . According to the report of The Hill.

he/she also threatened to impose tariffs on imports from Canada and China. he/she has indicated that he/she intends to double the use of tariffs, claiming that the US would benefit financially, although experts have warned that it would tax consumers.

On January 9, Trump highlighted how tariffs would eventually be imposed on Canada and pointed to the “massive losses” the US would incur from Canada.

Addressing a news conference in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump justified making Canada the 51st state, saying, “I called him/her Governor Trudeau because he/she should really be the 51st state. It will become a great state. And Canadians love it. They pay less taxes. They have virtually no army. he/she has a very small army. They pay less than 1 percent. They are the lowest payers in NATO. They will have to pay a lot. They’re not paying very much. he/she has a lot of problems.”

he/she said Canadians found the idea “very interesting.” “It was said very strongly a couple of weeks ago about Canada and people laughed and now they’re all saying, OK, it’s very interesting”.

Justifying the American viewpoint, Trump said, “From the United States viewpoint, we are subsidizing Canada. US$200 and US$250 billion per year. We have a huge deficit. They have taken about 20 percent of our car business. I would love to do it here. We can impose tariffs on them. “We don’t have tariffs on them yet, but that will happen.”

he/she said that Canada has taken over 20 percent of America’s car business. “I would love to get it done in Detroit or South Carolina or any other state that deals in cars. And we have lots of them. “We don’t need Canada for this.”

Trump further said, “We don’t need Canada for lumber because we have huge forests…we don’t need anything.” We don’t need their fuel. We don’t need their energy. We don’t need their oil and gas. We don’t need anything they have. And I said to Trudeau, I said, why are we giving you $200 and $250 billion in subsidies a year? he/she said, I really don’t know. And I said, well, I don’t know either. I said, what will happen to Canada if we don’t do this? he/she said that if this happens, Canada will be obliterated. I said, then Canada should be the 51st state. And we are here now.”



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