The Trump administration It announced on Saturday that it will impose rates through its new International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
President Donald Trump signed an executive order that was the rates on Saturday, which will come into force on Tuesday, consisting of one 25% extra rate About import from Canada and Mexico and a rate of 10% on the input from China.
Energy sources from Canada have a lower rate of 10%, according to the White House. In a statement obtained by Fox News Saturday, the Trump government said that the legislation is a reaction to an “extraordinary threat of illegal foreigners and drugs, including deadly fentanyl, (DAT) forms a national emergency situation.”
President-Elect Donald Trump speaks at Americaest December 22, 2024 in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scstructors)
“This challenge threatens the fabric of our society,” says the executive order. “Gang members, smugglers, human traffickers and all kinds of illegal drugs are cast across our borders and in our communities.
“Canada has played a central role in these challenges, also by omitting sufficient attention and resources or to coordinate meaningfully with American law enforcement partners to effectively turn the tide of illegal drugs.”
In a factor released by Trump officials, The White House Said that the rates are meant to hold the three countries responsible for “their promises to stop illegal immigration and to stop poisonous fentanyl and other medicines to flow into our country.”
The move was large criticized on Saturday by foreign leaders. In an X post, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that he “didn’t want this, but Canada is prepared.”
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President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office in the White House in Washington, DC (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said that her country ‘the defamation of the White House’ categorically rejects against the Mexican government of Alliances with criminal organizations, as well as any intention of intervention on our territory. “
“Mexico not only does not just want Fentanyl to reach the United States, but everywhere,” said the explanation. “That is why, if the United States want to combat criminal groups that generate traffic drugs and violence traffic drugs, we must work together in an integrated way, but always under the principles of shared responsibility, mutual trust, cooperation and especially respect for sovereignty, which is not negotiable. “
The changes were generally expected after press secretary Karoline Leavitt of the White House told reporters on Friday that the rates would be rolled out during the weekend.
On the same day, Trump told reporters that the US can also increase the rates for the import of the European Union, with the argument that the rates would make the US ‘very rich and very strong’.
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President Donald Trump speaks with members of the media before they board Marine in the White House. (Bryan Dozier/Midden -Sost images/AFP via Getty images)
“We have to protect Americans, and it is my duty as a president to guarantee the safety of all,” Trump wrote in a social post -post Saturday. “I made a promise on my campaign to stop the flow of illegal alien beings and drugs to flow across our borders, and Americans voted overwhelming.”
Brooke Singman and Diana Stancy from Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
