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... will impose the tariffs? Melanie Joly: Well, the basis on which these tariffs were going to be imposed on Canada and Mexico were based on fentanyl and the fact that there were issues at the border. So we wanted to do the best for us and also for the U ...
... a trade war. Trump has put an additional 10 percent tariff on Chinese imports due that country's role in the production of the opioid fentanyl. He also has readied tariffs on Canada and Mexico, America's two largest trading partners, that could take effect in March after being suspended ...
Trump put 10 percent tariffs on China over its contributions to the production of the illicit drug fentanyl, and China has taken retaliatory measures. He said he is ready if necessary on March 1 — after a 30-day suspension — to put tariffs on Mexico and Canada over his belief they ...
... that were threatened against Mexico and Canada as a way to get them to act on American concerns about the inflow of illegal migrants and fentanyl. And then there's a different bucket, which they call structural tariffs or strategic tariffs. And these are kind of indefinite. And they're ...
... allowing time for negotiations. Trump says that America's two neighbors and allies haven't done enough to stem the flow of undocumented immigrants and fentanyl into the United States. Trump is also itching to slap tariffs on the European Union; pointing to America's deficit in the trade of ...
... committed to the total elimination of Cartels and TCOs” — an acronym for Transnational Criminal Organizations. The Trump administration has made combating the illicit flow of fentanyl into the U.S. a priority. The opioid is blamed for some 70,000 overdose deaths annually. The Justice Department on Wednesday also shifted ...
... the flow of illegal drugs. Karoline Leavitt, White House Press Secretary: He is not going to allow China to continue to source and distribute deadly fentanyl into our country. That was the reason for this tariff. It was a retaliatory tariff on China for the last four years of their ...
... use tariffs to gain concessions from, for example, Mexico and Canada to try and help us secure the border, try and stop the flow of fentanyl. I think Peter Navarro said this isn't a trade war. This is a war on drugs. I don't disagree with that. And ...
... United States: This is retaliatory. This is retaliatory to a certain extent. We have to stop people from pouring in and we have to stop fentanyl. And that includes China. Fentanyl has killed this year at least 200,000 people. It's pouring in from China through Mexico and Canada ...
... actual problem that these tariffs aim to solve? Mary Lovely: Well, the president has identified two problems at the border, migration and the flow of fentanyl. So he has on occasion talked about the trade deficit that we have with our trading partners, but it's hard to know exactly ...
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