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... 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 ...
... framed his latest actions as leverage on immigration and drugs. Trump is blaming the three U.S. partners for not doing enough to stop the flow of fentanyl into U.S. markets. He blames Mexico and, to a lesser extent, Canada for an inflow of migrants across U.S. borders.
... officials asking for anything? Kirsten Hillman: So the way it's kind of unfolded is that the president expressed concern around again, illegal migration and fentanyl. And we were able to get together with him, but also obviously his officials to go through the data about what is actually happening ...
... has not said how high that price could be or what improvements would need to be seen in stopping illegal immigration and the smuggling of fentanyl to merit the removal of the tariffs that Trump imposed under the legal justification of an economic emergency. The tariffs are set to launch ...
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