Title : Trump imposes 5pc trade tariff on Mexican imports over 'illegal immigration problem'
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Trump imposes 5pc trade tariff on Mexican imports over 'illegal immigration problem'
President Donald Trump says the United States will impose a 5 per cent tariff on all goods coming from Mexico, starting on June 10, until illegal immigration across the southern border is stopped.
Key points:
- The tariffs will increase by 5 per cent every month until reaching 25 per cent in October
- Donald Trump has accused the Mexican Government of failing to do enough to crack down on migrants
- The tariffs come as the US negotiates a new trade deal with Canada and Mexico
"The Tariff will gradually increase until the Illegal Immigration problem is remedied, at which time the Tariffs will be removed," Mr Trump said on Twitter.
In a statement issued by the White House, Mr Trump said the tariff would increase by 5 per cent every month until reaching 25 per cent on October 1.
"Tariffs will permanently remain at the 25 per cent level unless and until Mexico substantially stops the illegal inflow of aliens coming through its territory," the statement read.
Mr Trump has accused the Mexican Government of failing to do enough to crack down on the surge of Central American migrants who have been flowing to the US in search of asylum from countries including El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.
"Mexico's passive cooperation in allowing this mass incursion constitutes an emergency and extraordinary threat to the national security and economy of the United States," Mr Trump said in the statement.
"Mexico has very strong immigration laws and could easily halt the illegal flow of migrants, including by returning them to their home countries."
When asked in a conference call with reporters which products from Mexico could be affected by the tariffs, White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney replied: "All of them."
Mexico's deputy foreign minister for North America Jesus Seade said it would be disastrous if Mr Trump goes through with his threat.
Tariffs implemented as US negotiates new Canada-Mexico agreement
The announcement comes as the administration has been pushing for passage of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that would update the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Today (local time) Vice-President Mike Pence, who was in Canada hoping to build momentum to pass a new trade deal with Canada and Mexico, vowed the deal would be passed this year.
"Our administration is working earnestly with leaders in the Congress of the United States to approve the USMCA this summer," he said.
The Trump administration has just triggered the process for submitting a bill to Congress that would implement the President's new trade deal with Canada and Mexico.
Mr Trump just recently removed US steel and aluminium tariffs on Canada and Mexico, clearing a roadblock to a North American trade deal that his team negotiated last year.
The trade penalties were a sore point in relations that reached a low last summer when Mr Trump called Prime Minister Justin Trudeau "weak" and "dishonest" after Canada hosted a summit of major industrial nations.
Mr Pence later said at a news conference that Mr Trump is a "great friend of the Canadian people".
When asked by reporters about the new tariff consideration, Mr Pence responded that both Mexico and Congress need to do more and that Mr Trump is determined to use his authority to call on them to do so.
Mr Trump had earlier announced that he was planning to make "a major statement on the border" that would be his "biggest statement, so far, on the border".
"This is a big-league statement. But we are going to do something very dramatic on the border, because people are coming into our country — the Democrats will not give us laws," he said as he headed to a commencement speech for 2019 United States Air Force Academy graduates.
Reuters
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