President Claudia Sheinbaum summoned her cabinet this Sunday to new meeting at the National Palace to refine her government’s strategy against 25% tariffs for Mexico’s goods imposed on Saturday by the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
The executive orders signed by Trump will enter into force from 00:01 on Tuesday, February 4 at Washington hours (05:01 GMT).
On the eve and in response to Trump, Sheinbaum, “categorically rejected” that the Government of Mexico has alliances with organized crime while proposing “dialogue” to the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and order “implementing tariff measures and non -tariff in defense of Mexico’s interests. ”
“I instruct the Secretary of Economy (Marcelo Ebrard) to implement Plan B that we have been working on,” said Sheinbaum.
However, until now the details of this plan have not revealed or what would be the measures against the United States.
This Sunday’s meeting of Sheinbaum with his cabinet is the third in consecutive days after Friday and Saturday and they have attended the headlines of the Foreign Relations Secretariats (SRE, Cancilleía) Juan Ramón de la Fuente; of Economy, Marcelo Ebrard; and of the environment and natural resources, Alicia Bárcena.
“Accusing the Mexican Government of Narco’s ally is, in addition to an offense to our country, a pretext to distract the public opinion of the United States from the tremendous mistake of imposing dissupputive rates on Mexico and the US companies established here. Shooting on the foot, ”said Ebrard this Sunday in a message on social network X.
The secretaries of the Treasury, Rogelio Ramírez de la O; of the Interior, Rosa Icela Rodríguez; of Economics, and Julio Berdegué, of Agriculture and Rural Development.
On Saturday, Trump ratified the executive orders for which 25% tariffs for the goods of Mexico and Canada (with the exception of Canadian oil, which will have only 10%) and 10% for those of those of those of China, which can unleash a dangerous commercial war.
The tariffs to Mexico and Canada -países to whom she accuses of not controlling her border in her migratory flows or those of drugs such as fentanyl, in addition to taking advantage of a commercial surplus with eu- they suppose a torpedo in the flotation line of the treaty Commercial among the three American countries for thirty years.
With EFE information.
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