President Claudia Sheinbaum held a virtual meeting with steel and aluminum businessmen, accompanied by the Secretaries of the Treasury, Édgar Amador, and Economics, Marcelo Ebrard, to evaluate the impacts of 50% tariffs imposed by the United States, According to a Quadratín website
“We evaluate the impacts and measures against tariffs of 50% imposed by the United States. Our responsibility is to protect jobs,” said the president in a message posted in her X account.
The meeting was held after the announcement of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, about the duplication of barriers to those metals, which went from 25 to 50% since Wednesday.
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Given this measure, Ebrard said yesterday that the Mexican government will request this Friday that Mexico is outside the new disposition, as happened with the United Kingdom.
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