Mexico City (EFE) .- President Claudia Sheinbaum met Wednesday with members of her cabinet, after the tariffs announced by President Donald Trump, and called them to continue with the Mexico Plan, a program designed to boost the production and national economy.
The meeting, with a duration of one hour, occurred on Wednesday in the National Palace and she already attended, among others, Foreign Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente; Roberto Velasco, general director for North America; Luz Elena González, Secretary of Energy (Sener) and Altagracia Gómez, of the Business Advisory Council.
“We are particularly focused on landing the Mexico Plan and specifying investments, tomorrow the president (Sheinbaum) will be talking about the announcement of President Trump and the measures that will be taken to strengthen the industry,” Gomez told Media, briefly, at the exit of the meeting.
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Trump sharpened his commercial war on Wednesday with the imposition of a 10% global tariff for all imports, which increases by 34% in the case of China and in 20% for the products of the European Union (EU).
On the other hand, he decided to relieve Mexico and Canada, its main commercial partners, by postponing again the imposition of rates for Mexican and Canadian products armored by the Free Trade Agreement (TMEC).
However, 25% levies to steel and aluminum from Mexico are maintained and, from midnight, another of up to 25% to the parts of cars that are not protected by the marked standards of the TMEC
This Wednesday, at his morning conference Sheinbaum rejected a “very negative vision” of Mexico’s economy despite the tariffs of the president of the United States, a destination of 80% of Mexican exports.
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Sheinbaum defended the reduction of the official growth forecast of between 1.5% and 2.3%, which estimated Tuesday and despite the recession alerts for Mexico of organizations such as the Organization for Cooperation and Development for Commercial Tensions.
The president reiterated that she will respond to Trump’s tariffs on Thursday with a strengthened vision of the ‘Mexico Plan’, which she presented in January and is a strategy with the private sector so that the Mexican economy reaches the world TOP 10 and specify at least 277,000 million dollars of investments until 2030.
“We are not going to advance (the plan). Tomorrow we are going to announce. It is a comprehensive program what we are going to announce, it is not an issue of whether you put me rates I put tariffs or tariffs. Our interest is the strengthening of the Mexican economy, among others, of the automotive industry,” he said on Wednesday.
With EFE information
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