U.S. President Donald Trump brandished a document on Tuesday confirming details of a regional asylum project agreed with Mexico to stave off threatened tariffs, saying the plan was “secret” even though Mexican officials had revealed much of it. Continue reading
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday dangled renewing his tariff threat on Mexico if the U.S. ally doesn’t co-operate on border issues, as Democratic challengers criticized a deal reached to avert the tariffs as overblown. Continue reading
Marcelo Ebrard, who helped negotiate the deal in Washington D.C., said when he arrived back home and gave the president his report, he told Lopez Obrador: “There are no tariffs, Mr. President, we emerged with our dignity intact.” Continue reading
The Trump administration began slapping tariffs on imports of Chinese goods nearly a year ago, accusing Beijing of using predatory means to lend Chinese companies an edge in advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics and electric vehicles. Continue reading
Trump says he will impose five per cent tariffs on all goods imported from Mexico starting Monday unless the country does more to stop the flow of Central American immigrants into the U.S. Continue reading
U.S. and Mexican officials were holding a third day of talks at the U.S. State Department Friday trying to hash out a deal that would satisfy Trump’s demand that Mexico dramatically increase its efforts to crack down on migrants. Continue reading
Trump said Thursday that a “lot of progress” must be made to halt the import taxes he has planned. Continue reading
Agents made 132,887 apprehensions in May, the first time that apprehensions have topped 100,000 since April 2007. Continue reading
Republicans are deeply concerned that Trump’s proposed 5 per cent tariffs on all imports from Mexico would spike U.S. consumers’ costs, harm the economy and imperil a major pending US-Mexico-Canada trade deal. Continue reading
It is unclear what more Mexico can do — and what will be enough — to satisfy the president. Continue reading