US President Donald Trump Said on Sunday His administration will impose 25% fees for all steel and aluminum imports from Mexico and Canada.
“Any steel that comes into the United States has 25% fee. Aluminum.”
At a press conference on Monday morning, President Claudia Shinebam confessed to Trump’s comments, but his government was waiting for a formal announcement of the proposed fees.
Trump signed an administrative order to implement 25% of all steel and aluminum imports to the United States Monday afternoon.
His Monday Mainnera.
Sheinbam tightened how Mexico would respond to fees on steel and aluminum
A reporter asked the president that Trump had announced on Sunday that the US would impose 25% fees on all steel and aluminum imports.
“We’re going to wait for the announcement … we will make our decisions from there,” said Sheinbam.
He said he would have a “cold head” because he was waiting for Trump’s proper payment announcement.
Mexico is a large steel supplier for AmericaThis means that the fees for alloy Mexican manufacturers are painful.
Trump In the first term of being president in 2018, fees were charged on Mexican steel and aluminumMexico stimulates the range of retaliation activity to activate Including duties in American bacon, Apple and Burban. There were fees Raised in 2019.
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Last Monday, Trump agreed to suspend 25% of schemes scheduled for all Mexican exports to the United States After Shinbam promised 10,000 National Guard sends troops to the northern border To fight the flow of drugs and immigrants to the United States
Shinbam: The United States must ‘play its role’ in the fight against drugs
When questioned about production in Fenton in Mexico, Shinepam told reporters that “drug trafficking is related to the demand.”
“In other words, there is a need for a medication and there are those who provide the drug,” he said.
“… Our aim is to reduce violence in the country, reduces the production and distribution of drugs in that process. … The United States must make its role in the United States: Participate on public health issues for using drugs, and handle drugs in their territory. ”
The President also wants to take action from the United States to prevent the flow of guns to Mexico.
As part of his agreement with Trump last Monday, Shinbam said, “The US has promised to work to avoid smuggling more powerful weapons to Mexico.”
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Lopez Obrador’s administration ‘We will not exclude ourselves, the president says
Former President Andrez Manuel Lopez asked about Opradorz “Hug, not bullets” safety strategy Although his government continued to do so, Shinbam jumped into the protection of his political guide.
“We are always going to protect President Lopez Opradar and no one should have little doubt,” the President said.
“Why? Because he, he is a great president. We are always going to protect him and no one should think wrongly. We are part of the same movement, ”Shinebam said.
He wants the opposition parties to turn himself away from the forerunners of his government, but promised that it would not do so.
“We won’t exclude ourselves,” Shinebam said.
He refused to say that his government maintains “warmths and bullets”, but that he focuses on the root causes of crime through welfare and social programs – the “warmths” of the Lopez Oprader’s strategy – Four pillars of federal security strategy.
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Shinbam replied that the current strategy was “different” from Amlo:
“I want to get a notice from me that I’m not going to give you.”
Was Shortly after Shinepham took office that the current central government abandoned the “bullets” of Amlo’s security strategy Federal security forces used dangerous power on several occasions against civilians and others.
The president said on Monday that his government was offering “education, culture, sports, employment and rights” to the youth and not involved in “battle” like Calderon.
This is a reference to the military -militant war against drug dealers, which began shortly after former President Belippe Calderon took office in 2006.
Shinbam, like Lopez Obrador, accuses the unleashing of Calderon administration, with the war against cartels, and today, the most violent violence that continues to affect Mexico.
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