Washington.- President Donald Trump clarified Thursday that the possible increase in tariffs on Chinese products of 10% for March 4 will be added to 10% already imposed this month.
In statements in the Oval Office together with the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, said that if there are no progress in the fight against fentanyl traffic before Tuesday comes the tariffs on Chinese imports will increase to 20%.
At the beginning of February, Trump imposed an increase in 10% tariffs on all Chinese products and this Thursday announced in his social truth network that due to the poor progress in the fight against fentanyl would impose the 25% tariffs against Mexico and Canada that had postponed a month and an additional 10% against China.
In his speech at the Oval Office, he clarified that “this 10 is additional about 10% (previous).”
“Drugs come from Mexico and many of them also from China; Not all, but many come from China, ”Trump said.
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The United States accuses China of not doing enough to prevent fentanyl precursors from being exported and used for the production of this drug.
According to Trump in the morning in Truth Social, drugs are still entering the United States from Mexico and Canada “at very high and unacceptable levels. A large percentage of these drugs, many of them in the form of a fentanyl, are made or are provided by China. ”
“We cannot allow this scourge to continue damaging the United States and, therefore, until it stops or is limited in a serious way, the proposed tariffs scheduled to enter into force on March 4, of course, will come into force as planned,” he added.
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With EFE information
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