<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/us/politics/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china.html" class="">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/us/politics/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china.html</a> </div><h1 class="e1h9rw200 css-1j1icla" data-testid="headline">Trump Says Canada and Mexico Tariffs Will Go Into Effect Next Week</h1><p class="css-cb4rkw"><i class="">The
president also said he would impose an additional 10 percent tariff on
China as he tries to force other countries to take more action on drug
shipments.</i></p><div class=""><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Tariffs on
imports from Canada and Mexico would go into effect on March 4 “as
scheduled,” President Trump said on Thursday morning, claiming that
those countries were still not doing enough to stop the flow of drugs
into the United States.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">China will
also face an additional 10 percent tariff next week, on top of the 10
percent he imposed earlier this month, the president wrote <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114076153524132682" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">in a post</a> on Truth Social.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“Drugs
are still pouring into our Country from Mexico and Canada at very high
and unacceptable levels,” he said. “A large percentage of these Drugs,
much of them in the form of Fentanyl, are made in, and supplied by,
China.” He added that the levies were necessary until the flow of drugs
“stops, or is seriously limited.”</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">In an effort to stem the flow of migrants and drugs, Mr. Trump <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/us/politics/canada-mexico-china-trump-tariffs.html" title="">threatened to impose tariffs on all products from Canada, Mexico and China</a>
in early February. But after Mexico and Canada promised measures like
sending more troops to the border and, in the case of Canada, appointing
a “fentanyl czar,” Mr. Trump paused their tariffs for one month.</p><div class="">He <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/business/economy/trump-tariffs-china.html" title="">moved ahead with</a> imposing a 10 percent tariff on all products from China, on top of those already in place, which prompted China to <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/business/economy/trump-tariffs-china.html" title="">retaliate with its own tariffs</a> on American goods.\</div><div class=""><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Additional tariffs on the country’s three biggest trading partners would only add to <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/business/trump-tariffs-spending-cuts-economy.html" title="">the economic strain that has begun to emerge</a> from Mr. Trump’s flurry of actions. And his threats have posed a particular quandary for Canadian officials, who <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/world/canada/canada-fentanyl-trump.html" title="">argue that</a> fentanyl made in Canada has not posed an increasing threat to the United States.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Last
year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents intercepted about 19
kilograms of fentanyl at the U.S.-Canadian border, compared with almost
9,600 kilograms at the border with Mexico, where <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/world/americas/inside-fentanyl-lab-mexico.html" title="">cartels mass-produce the drug</a>. A 2020 Congressional commission that looked into reducing the flow of drugs into the United States <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/world/canada/canada-fentanyl-trump.html" title="">found that</a> Canada was not known to be a major source of fentanyl or its precursor chemicals.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Mexico,
in contrast, is a major source of fentanyl shipments. In recent months,
the Mexican government has widened its operations against the Sinaloa
state, with a burst of high-level arrests, drug lab busts and drug
seizures rocking the operations of the Sinaloa Cartel there.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">After
Mr. Trump came to the brink of imposing a 25 percent tariff on Mexican
exports earlier this month, Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s president,
dispatched 10,000 national guard troops to the border and sent hundreds
more soldiers to Sinaloa state, a major hub of fentanyl trafficking,
resulting in high level arrests and raids of drug labs.</p></div><div class=""><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">It remains unclear if those efforts will
be enough to mollify Mr. Trump. His post on Thursday appeared to be an
attempt to clarify the timing for his various tariffs after his remarks
at the White House on Wednesday sowed confusion about whether the March 4
levies had been delayed.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">When asked
about tariffs on Canada and Mexico on Wednesday, Mr. Trump said that
they would proceed — but mentioned April 2, which is when he has said
another batch of tariffs on various countries, which he has called <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/us/politics/trump-tariffs.html" title="">reciprocal tariffs</a>, would go into effect.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Some
investors interpreted those remarks as a sign the president meant to
continue delaying the tariffs related to drugs and migrants, and the
value of the peso and the Canadian dollar increased. But a White House
official on Wednesday clarified that the April 2 date referred to other
tariffs, not those on Canada and Mexico.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“The April Second Reciprocal Tariff date will remain in full force and effect,” Mr. Trump wrote Thursday.</p></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
Arthur Stamoulis<br class="">Citizens Trade Campaign<br class="">(202) 494-8826<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">
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