The Republican president said, meanwhile, that On Thursday night It will decide if tariffs include oil from those countries.
After the announcement, the Mexican weight deleted the progress this Thursday against the dollar . The Mexican currency, which closed Thursday’s session with an appreciation of 0.53% compared to Wednesday, reached 20,7022 pesos per dollar, depreciating 1.35%.
Yesterday, the candidate for the Secretary of Commerce of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, Howard Lutnick He said that Canada and Mexico could avoid Trump’s threat to impose 25% tariffs on US imports if they acted rapidly to prevent the entry of fentanyl and illegal immigrants in the United States.
“So it is another tariff to move to the action of Mexico and the action to Canada,” Lutnick said during a confirmation hearing in the United States Senate, about the threat of 25%tariffs. “And as far as I know, they are acting quickly, and if they execute it, there will be no tariff.”
President Claudia Sheinbaum considered Wednesday that Donald Trump’s government will not impose tariffs to Mexico from this February 1, but, if happening, she said that her administration already has a plan.
“We do not believe it will happen, the truth, and if it also happens We have our plan ; I will report it, ”he said.
In the same sense, the Secretary of Economy, Marcelo Ebrard, said that the Mexican government is optimistic and has a plan to react to the possible tariffs that the United States can apply to imports from Mexico from February first of February next.
He stressed that Facing possible tariffs Trump is expected to announce next Saturday, February 1, the Government has worked for about eight months in weekly meetings directed by President Sheinbuam.
With Reuters information, Arista and Dainzú Lidia Patiño
