Sheinbaum hopes to avoid tariffs after Trump threat

This Friday, the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaumclosed a week of rumors about threats of tariffs by the elected president of the United States, Donald Trumpbeing very confident that her government will reach agreements on migration and drug trafficking to avoid said taxes.

“We collaborate, we never subordinate ourselves. If we manage to coordinate on that, there will be no tariffs,” said the president during today’s “La Mañanera del pueblo.”

The Mexican leader reiterated what she had stated on Thursday, after the telephone conversation with Trump, as she said she was “convinced” that there will be an agreement.

“We are going to agree, defending our sovereignty with respect for Mexicans and the collaboration that one government must have with another and one trading partner with another,” he asserted.

Sheinbaum insisted that, just as he stated in a letter last Tuesday, during the talk he had on Wednesday with Trump, he explained to him what Mexico is doing to address the immigration phenomenon and in the fight against drug trafficking, particularly against fentanyl.

“We even talked about the campaign that was carried out in Mexico that interested him a lot,” settled.

Claudia Sheinbaum’s firmness against Trump

The controversy began on Monday, when the next US president threatened to impose 25% tariffs on “all products” from Mexico and Canada, until the invasion of illegal migrants and drugs is “stopped”, particularly fentanyl.

In response, Sheinbaum sent him a letter in which he explained the 75% drop in daily interceptions of undocumented immigrants since December on the common border, warning him that “to one tariff another will come in response” and rejected their “threats.”

After these dialectical comings and goings, the aforementioned telephone conversation occurred, from which both leaders came up with somewhat different versions.

Although both highlighted in their subsequent messages the good harmony and the excellent conversation, Trump assured that Sheinbaum had agreed to stop immigration to the north and “effectively close the border”, something that the Mexican president flatly denied.

“Everyone has their own way of communicating, but I can assure you, I give you the certainty, that we would never, and we would be incapable of it, propose that we were going to close the border in the north (of Mexico), or in the south of the United States.” , has never been our approach,” he declared in his daily conference on Thursday.

The Mexican President assured that “there will be no tariff war” with the United States despite the fact that President-elect Trump announced on Monday that one of his first executive orders will be to impose these.

Until this Friday, Sheinbaum has defended that, as his Secretary of the Economy, Marcelo Ebrard, said, a trade conflict between both nations would only be detrimental to the economy on both sides of the border, mainly due to the inflationary risk that it would generate in USA.

Furthermore, the president insisted that Mexico is already working to address the issues complained of from the United Statessomething he pointed out to President Trump during their telephone conversation on Wednesday.

The leader reiterated that the migrant caravans are no longer arriving at the border with the United States, while the Mexican Government has a plan that includes jobs for those who stay in Mexico, shelters, voluntary returns, and preventing them from advancing from southern Mexico.

“I raised all this with President Trump and told him: the caravan that he mentioned in his publication is not going to reach the northern border because we have a strategy to address it in our country, so he evidently recognized this effort that is being made,” held.

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