Canada and Mexico's leaders announced plans to retaliate to President Donald Trump's imposed 25% tariff on the two countries neighboring the United States' northern and southern borders, the New York Post reports.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo were working together to push back against Trump's proposed 25% tariff on Canadian and Mexican imports, which he claimed would combat the growing number of drugs being into U.S.
Trump, who also proposed a 10% tax on Chinese products, will also impose a 10% tax on energy products from Canada as part of the plan. Canada plans to retaliate by implementing a 25% tariff on $155 billion worth of U.S. goods, which includes beer, wine, bourbon, fruits, fruit juices, vegetables, perfume, clothing and shoes.
“Many of us will be deeply affected. A lot of people will go through dark times. We’re asking you to support one another, to be there for your friends, your neighbors, and your fellow Canadians,” Trudeau said, calling the tariffs a "threat targeting the entire country" and claiming it might be in Canada's best interest to forgo all American products.
Pardo also ordered retaliatory tariffs on the United States and denounced Trump's claims that the Mexican government was aligned with criminal organizations and cartel members. The president said she notified her economy minister "to implement Plan B" which "includes tariff and non-tariff measures," though not specifying the extent of the measures.
“If such an alliance exists anywhere, it is in the United States armories that sell high-powered weapons to these criminal groups, as demonstrated by the United States Department of Justice itself in January of this year,” Sheinbaum said in a translated post on her X account.
“If the United States government and its agencies wanted to address the serious consumption of fentanyl in their country, they could, for example, combat the sale of narcotics on the streets of their main cities, which they do not do, and the money laundering generated by this illegal activity that has done so much harm to their population," she added.