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ALFREDO AZCARATE VARELA
THE BAJA POST/EDITOR
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The rumors sparked by Donald Trump who threatened to impose a 25% custom tariff on Mexican exports to the United States made people scared in Mexico as well as in Canada, but the tariffs have been postponed until early March, after the President of the United States had a phone conversation with the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.
The United States will «pause» for a month, it was 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian products entering the States, which would have been a big blow against both countries economies, but some people think that the USA final consumer would have been affected too.
The commerce measure was announced by Donald Trump but it has been delayed, said President Sheinbaum, as a result of the aforementioned phone call of Monday, February 3rd, where they agreed to strengthen border surveillance, stop Fentanyl flow to the States and the US committed to stop the flow of firearms to Mexico.
Toughening the Mexico-United States border to contain the wave of immigrants entering the United States through Mexican territory is something that Trump has demanded as well as a more intense and effective fight against the trafficking of fentanyl to the neighboring country, those are the two central points of this agreement.
Through a brief message published on her social media, Sheinbaum said she committed to reinforcing the border with the United States with 10 thousand soldiers from the National Guard and the National Defense Department, who will be in charge of preventing drug trafficking, particularly fentanyl.
In her morning press conference this Monday, she assured that she ordered the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena), Ricardo Trevilla Trejo, to address the request to strengthen security in the border area. Meanwhile, on the side of the United States government, they committed to working to prevent the trafficking of high-powered weapons to Mexico, which are used by organized crime organizations.
