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President Trump delayed his scheduled invoices in Canada and Mexico on Monday for 30 days after the concessions victory from both countries to prevent the flow of drugs and immigrants in the United States, postponing, at least temporarily, a painful and possibly destabilization Commercial War.
10 % invoices are still in place in China on Tuesday morning. Mr Trump said on Monday that he was likely to speak with President Xi Jinping of China within the next 24 hours about a variety of controversial issues and warned that the 10 % invoice planning to impose was just an “Salvo opening”.
Last -minute chaotic maneuver has shown Mr Trump’s willingness to use the invoices as a leverage against America’s most important commercial partners despite the possibility of serious financial consequences. Imports from Mexico, China and Canada represent more than one third of the products imported to the United States, more than $ 1 trillion in goods in time. Economists predicted that invoices and expected retaliation measures could raise inflation and disrupt global supply chains.
Stock markets collapsed on Monday morning before Mr Trump announced that he had reached an agreement with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to prevent 25 percent contributions. Mr Trump also said that his initial call with Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was “very good” and that the two would talk later a day.
This second call helped America to prevent invoices with one of its nearest allies, with Mr Trump agreeing with a 30 -day delay.
“I just had a good call with President Trump,” Mr Trudeau said in a social position of the media. He said Canada would proceed with the $ 900 million border reinforcement plan, which was previously announced, developing additional technology and staff and appointed a “Fentanyl Czar”.
Hours after listing the complaints for Canada, Mr Trump published the social media that Canada had agreed on many of his demands.
“Canada has agreed to ensure that we have a safe northern border and eventually end the deadly scourge of drugs such as Fentanyl that is poured in our country, killing hundreds of thousands of Americans, destroying their families and communities throughout our country.” . “I am very pleased with this initial result and the invoices announced on Saturday will cease for a 30 -day period to see if a final financial deal with Canada can be structured.”
The reversals covered an emergency 48 hours in which Mr Trump threatened to upgrade the global economy and launch a world trade war on issues that it claimed to be national security before the sharp changing course.
The decisions of Canada and Mexico to join Mr Trump’s requests are likely to encourage a president who has already made it clear that he considers invoices as a source of leverage with opponents and allies.
“Invoices are very powerful, both financially and to get everything else you want,” Mr Trump said on Monday. “When you are the gold container, the invoices are very good, they are very strong and will make our country very rich again.”
During the weekend, Mr Trump signed executive orders approved invoices in Canada, Mexico and China. 25 % contributions to Canada and Mexico came into force shortly after midnight on Tuesday.
The orders that moved a race from Canadian and Mexican leaders from preventing a trade war that was able to destabilize the international trade system and throw their economies into recession.
Trump’s administration justified national security invoices, arguing that Canada, Mexico and China allowed Fentanyl to enter the United States and kill Americans. Mr Trump has also pressed Mexico to take steps to prevent immigrants from entering the country illegally.
But on Monday morning, Mr Trump said he had made a significant discovery with Ms. Sheinbaum.
Mexico agreed to develop 10,000 additional troops designated to stop the flow of immigrants and illegal drugs at all US-Mexico border. Mrs Sheinbaum said the United States would help to seduce the weapons movement over the border in Mexico.
Top officials from both countries are expected to participate in further talks next month.
“There is a relationship of respect and equal, which is important,” Ms Sheinbaum said.
He remained unclear for most of the day if Mr Trump would have reached his threat to hit Canada with contributions. When signing the executive orders on Monday, Mr Trump continued to confess to Canada, among other things, arguing that US banks do not have market access and that high obstacles are limiting US products such as cars.
“Many things were very unjustly with Canada,” he said. When asked what Mr Trudeau could offer to prevent invoices, Mr Trump said: “I don’t know.”
“We have big deficits with Canada,” said Trump, who continued to express his interest in Canada to become the 51st US state. “I can’t tell you what’s going to happen.”
After calling, however, Mr Trudeau set out the additional steps that Canada would need to secure his borders with the United States.
“Canada assumes new commitments to appoint a fenters. “, Mr. Trudeau wrote in X.
Mr Trudeau added that he also signed a new directive on organized crime and fentanyl that would be backed by $ 200 million. He said the invoices would stop for “at least 30 days”, while the two countries continued to discuss the situation.
Mr Trudeau said the weekend that Canada would establish sharp invoices on US products if Mr Trump had proceeded with the invoices and that Canadian officials were preparing measures to protect their industries from Fallout.
China was also preparing its answer. The United Nations ambassador, Fu Cong, said Monday that China had filed a complaint to the World Trade Organization for Mr Trump’s invoices and would consider antitrust actions.
“We are consistently opposed to this unjustified increase. We believe this violates the WTO rules. That is why China is reporting to the WTO and we may have to get countermeasures. There is no winner in a trade war,” he said.
The day began with stocks falling abruptly on Wall Street, watching a global decline that came one day in the other, as investors excluded shares of companies who would get tougher than Canada, Mexico and China.
The development of Trump’s commercial plans, with the late Monday morning announcement that the invoices for Mexico will be delayed for a month, whip markets and traders fought to adapt to developments as they unfolded. The PESO and Canadian dollar, which had been reduced against the US dollar due to the threat of invoices, began to recover after Mexico’s announcement that invoices would be delayed.
Wall Street analysts took over as a positive sign that Trump’s administration was willing to establish a 10 % invoice for Canada’s energy imports, instead of 25 %, with recognition that contributions could lead to higher prices for consumers USA. The agreement to delay Mexico’s invoices also suggested Mr Trump’s willingness to retreat.
“As we weigh the risk of a deeper trade war and its impact on the economy and markets, we recognize the danger that all sides will continue to react,” writes Brian Gardner, a US policy -maker for Stifel, an investment company. a note to customers. “However, Trump’s actions in his first term suggest that he will eventually agree on an agreement that a political victory can claim, even if there is no significant change in politics – a cosmetic victory.”
As Trump was negotiating, policy -makers continued to weigh the potential outcome of his inflationary decision.
Speaking at an event on Monday, Raphael Bostic, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, warned that businesses in his area were planning to pass “100 percent” of the highest invoices to their customers. Mr Bostic said whether businesses could do so in a prolonged period would depend to a large extent on whether consumers “revolutionaries” and that the answer would vary depending on the product and sector.
In an interview with CNBC on Monday, Boston’s Federal Reserve Bank president Susan Collins said that “wide” invoices will not only increase prices in so -called goods or items ready to be sold to consumers, but also “intermediate goods” used to produce other products.
Still, Mrs Collins said that in the midst of such uncertainty, there was no “urgent” for the Fed to reduce interest rates now. In the context of a rotating timetable, it will vote at Political Meetings this year.
Congress legislators also carefully watched the indications of what Mr Trump would do.
While most Republicans were reluctant to openly criticize Mr Trump’s invoices, it was clear that some were concerned about the outcome they could have in their states.
“Please, with President Trump, to relieve Potash from the invoice because family farmers take most of our potada from Canada,” writes Senator Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican in X.
The report was contributed by Colby Smith; Farnaz Fassihi; Matina Stevis-Gridneff; Zolan kanno-youngs; Annie Correal and Danielle Kaye.
