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REACTION: Trump Threatens 30% Tariffs on Mexico

  • Writer: AOM Advisors
    AOM Advisors
  • Jul 14, 2025
  • 1 min read

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July 14, 2025
By AQ Editors

In a letter to Sheinbaum, Trump wrote that the tariffs would take effect on August 1 and come in response to fentanyl trafficking.

Tractor trailers wait at the U.S.-Mexico border in Juárez, Mexico, in April.Justin Hamel/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Tractor trailers wait at the U.S.-Mexico border in Juárez, Mexico, in April.Justin Hamel/Bloomberg via Getty Images

TRUMP & LATIN AMERICA

On July 12, President Donald Trump announced 30% tariffs on imports from Mexico would take effect on August 1. In a letter to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum that Trump posted on social media, he wrote that the levies would be imposed because Mexico’s actions to stop cartel drug trafficking and secure the U.S.-Mexico border have been “not enough.”



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