The US President Donald Trump set on Saturday as the deadline to impose 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada, unless countries take drastic measures against illegal migration and shipments of the mortal opioid fentanyl to the United States.
Trump has not exempted the import imports of the plan, which will harm consumers, the energy industry and national security, as the oil industry has warned.
Lee: Trump announces tariffs to oil and gas from Mexico and Canada as of February 18
Canada and Mexico are the main sources of importation of crude oil for the United States and together they represent about a quarter of the oil that US refineries transform fuels such as gasoline and heating fuel, according to the United States Department of Energy.
Next, a list of the main countries of which the United States imports raw and the volumes supplied by each of them:
*Import volume in thousands of barrels per day
- Canada 3,800
- Mexico 457
- Saudi Arabia 275
- Venezuela 228
- Brazil 224
- Colombia 210
- Irak 198
- Nigeria 139
- Ecuador 120
Source: EU (EIA) Energy Information Management data and the KPLER analysis platform.
Note: The data on Venezuela are an average of those of the EIA from January to October and those of November and December KPLER.
With Reuters information
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