Canada, China, And Mexico Blast Trump’s Tariffs Vow

USA Today reports:

Officials in China, Mexico and Canada criticized Tuesday a pledge made by President-elect Donald Trump on social media to impose new tariffs on all three of the United States’ largest trading partners on the first day of his presidency. Trump said the move, which appears to violate the terms of a free-trade deal Trump signed into law in 2020, is aimed at clamping down on drugs − fentanyl especially − and migrants crossing into the U.S. illegally.

Liu Pengyu, a spokesperson for the Chinese embassy, said: “The idea of China knowingly allowing fentanyl precursors to flow into the US runs completely counter to facts and reality.” Mexico’s finance ministry said in a statement that the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement provided “certainty” for investors. Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario,

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