{"id":26976,"date":"2025-02-02T06:51:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T06:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=26976"},"modified":"2025-02-02T06:57:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T06:57:23","slug":"trump-launches-trade-war-with-tariffs-on-mexico-canada-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2025\/02\/trump-launches-trade-war-with-tariffs-on-mexico-canada-and-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump launches trade war with tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; US President Donald Trump on Saturday ordered\u00a0sweeping tariffs\u00a0on goods from Mexico, Canada and China, demanding they stanch the flow of fentanyl \u2014 and illegal immigrants in the case of Canada and Mexico \u2014 into the United States, kicking off a\u00a0trade war\u00a0that could dent global growth and reignite inflation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mexico and Canada, the top two US trading partners, immediately vowed retaliatory tariffs, while China said it would challenge Trump\u2019s move at the World Trade Organisation and take other \u201ccountermeasures\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In three executive orders, Trump imposed 25 per cent tariffs on Mexican and most Canadian imports and 10pc on goods from China, starting on Tuesday, reported Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada would respond with 25pc tariffs against $155 billion of US goods, including beer, wine, lumber and appliances, beginning with $30bn taking effect on Tuesday and $125bn 21 days later.<\/p>\n<p>Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, in a\u00a0post on X, said she was instructing her economy minister to implement retaliatory tariffs but gave no details.<\/p>\n<p>Canada and Mexico said they were working together to face Trump\u2019s tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s Commerce Ministry did not specify its planned countermeasures. Its statement left open the door for\u00a0talks\u00a0between Washington and Beijing.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; US President Donald Trump on Saturday ordered\u00a0sweeping tariffs\u00a0on goods from Mexico, Canada and China, demanding they stanch the flow of fentanyl \u2014 and illegal immigrants in the case of Canada and Mexico \u2014 into the United States, kicking off a\u00a0trade war\u00a0that could dent global growth and reignite inflation. Mexico and Canada, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":26980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,194,981,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-world","category-economy","category-headline"],"views":54,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26979,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26976\/revisions\/26979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}