On Saturday, President Trump ordered 25 percent of the tariff on all Mexican exports to the United States and a similar imposition on all Canadian goods, with the exception of a 10 percent tariff for Canadian energy. His movement sent shock waves across both countries, whose leaders have warned that definitions would harm all three countries and disrupt their deep interlocking economies.
On his first day in office, Mr. Trump pledged to impose a punitive tariff on Mexican and Canadian exports on February 1, to force the two countries to better secure their borders against the flow of immigrants who are not documented and drugs.
The customs tariff targets the closest US neighbors and the main commercial partners. Mexico has become the largest commercial partner for the United States last yearExport a variety of goods, including cars and avocado, while Canada is the largest foreign oil resource to the United States.
Mexican officials have criticized the definitions, on the pretext that they will not only harm the economy of Mexico, but will also harm American companies that have production factories in Mexico, including General Motors and Ford. American consumers may also see higher prices for fruits, vegetables and other products.
President Claudia Shinbom of Mexico said on Friday that the country was “ready for any scenario.” I suggested that Mexico can decrease with its own tariff.
This is what to know about the definitions:
Why Trump imposes definitions on Mexico?
Mr. Trump put Mexico and the southern American borders in the midst of his presidential campaign, as he was mocking record levels of unconventional immigrants entering the United States, as well as the movement of fentanel into the country. (The border crossings are currently much lower than the record levels in 2023.)
Mr. Trump accused Mexico of allowing the “conquest of mass migration” in the United States, claiming that this had brought “crime and drugs”, and wages of crushing and sunken school systems.
This is not the first time that Mr. Trump has used the definitions as a strategy to achieve the goals of the immigration policy.
During his first term, he threatened to impose taxes on Mexican products to pressure the country’s president at that time, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, in cracking on immigration.
As a result, Mexico published the National Guard employees throughout the country to enjoy illegal immigration and agreed to expand a program that allowed immigrants looking for asylum in the United States to stay in Mexico while continuing their legal issues.
What did Mexico do to counter migrants on the American border?
Mexico has increased significantly from the immigration application in recent years, especially during the Biden administration. It has added hundreds of immigration checkpoints throughout the country, including the sections that were conducted once from the border, and have conducted searches on the bus roads and increased significantly Arrests.
To deter people from reaching the border cities such as Tijuana, a large entry point for immigrants near San Diego, the Mexican authorities raided hotels and safe homes, increasing security in official crossings and installing new border checkpoints where immigrants were going through a gap in the wall.
Mexico has also transferred migrants away from the border, using flights and buses rented to Drop One of the people in southern cities, such as Fahirmosa. The strategy contributed to diving fears of people trying to cross the southern border at the beginning of last year.
The government also presented Peruviated obstacles For immigrants trying to reach the United States. At one point, I stopped issuing documents that allowed immigrants and refugees to stay in Mexico.
Caroline Levitt, the White House press secretary, referred to these measures last week when the Trump administration said I have seen “A historical level of cooperation from Mexico “on border security.
What did Mexico do to control the trafficking in Fintanel?
Mrs. Shinbom has taken a more stringent line than her predecessor to eliminate criminal groups participating in the Ventanil Trade.
Mr. Lopez Obrador gave priority to address social and economic root causes of drug crime on enforcement procedures. However, during the first four months of Mrs. Shinbom, the Mexican security forces conducted large bouts of fentanel and climbed their operations to determine and destroy secret fentanel laboratories. It also targeted the security forces The main members From Sinaloa Cartel, the strong criminal organization is largely responsible for the fentanel that flows on the southern border.
In December, the Mexican security forces seized more than a ton of fentanel, equivalent to more than 20 million doses of fentanel beans, while Mrs. Xinbom described it as “the largest group seizure of fentanel beans ever.”
Mexico Security Minister Omar Garcia Harvoush announced last week that since Mrs. Shinbom took office on October 1, more than 10,000 people were arrested on serious criminal charges, including killing. Mr. Garcia Harvoush said that the Mexican authorities also seized 90 tons of drugs, including more than 1.3 tons of fentanel, and destroyed more than 139 laboratories.
Some of the most decisive efforts to curb the outbreak of violence on the state of Sinalua, where the competing factions have turned Sinalo Cartele to A. War zone After ISMAEL “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia, Supreme Commander of the Cork, was lured on a plane under false allegations and sent to the United States, where he is subjected to the indictment.
Although there is no evidence that these enforcement procedures have made a large debit in the capabilities of Sino Cartel’s production, analysts say it has sent a clear message about Mexico’s commitment to success in the demands of Mr. Trump.
“There are thousands of secret fentanel kitchens in Sendoa alone, and the drug is very profitable because the cartel will not only hand it over to the authorities,” said Eduardo Guerrero, Mexican security analyst.
He added: “But the important thing is to show that Mexico is working more seriously, faster and good in this promise to achieve results.”
Mexico also recently recognized a constitutional reform to ban the production, distribution and sale of chemicals needed to manufacture fentanel. The laws on crimes related to fentanel also increased.
What did Mexico tell Mr. Trump about his efforts?
After the victory of Mr. Trump, Mrs. Xinbom said he should think about what Mexico did to reduce the flow of fentianil and illegal immigration.
In a letter to Mr. Trump, Mrs. Shinbom said that the “comprehensive” immigration policy for immigrants who arrive in Mexico from different countries and seeking to reach the United States has led to a 75 percent decrease in confrontations along the United States Mexico border from December 2023 to November 2024.
She added that half of the immigrants who arrived in the United States entered a legal date to demand resort because the United States has provided an application that allowed migrants to determine these dates. (The Trump administration closed the application entry program.)
“For these reasons, migratory convoys no longer reach the border,” she said.
In the same letter, Ms. Shinbom repeated that “Mexico’s willingness to prevent the fentanel epidemic” from continuing to cause losses in the United States, and highlighted the enforcement procedures that led to the seizure of tons of artificial drugs.
