Mexico could adapt the US tariffs in China, says Bessent

Mexico has made a “very interesting” proposal to meet the US tariffs for China, said Scott Bessent, US finance minister, on February 28th.

It came after the Mexican Economic Secretary Marcelo Ebrard had conducted trade talks with US officials in Washington in front of new US tariffs for Mexican goods.

In an interview with Bloomberg Television, Bessent said: “I think a very interesting suggestion that the Mexican government has made may correspond to the USA for our China tariffs.”

Besser suggested that Canada could do the same and said it was “a nice gesture”.

“In a way, we could lead from the flood of Chinese imports from the North America fortress from the most unbalanced economy in the history of modern times,” said the finance minister.

Asked about the proposal in Vancouver, Canada's Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly told reporters that Canada is “very open to HAV[ing] Trade -related conversations, even when it comes to China. “

President Donald Trump previously intended to impose additional tariffs for goods from China, Mexico and Canada from February 4.

The additional 10 percent tariffs for Chinese goods are effective as planned, while Canada and Mexico secured a delay of four weeks.

After a month of the negotiations, Washington said that his two neighbors had “done appropriate work” to secure their limits. Trump is now considering the level of tariffs on March 4th instead of the previously promised level of 25 percent.

The president will also increase his 10 percent tariffs in China to 20 percent on Tuesday, unless the regime stops the flow of fentanyl female in countries like Mexico.

Beijing says that it has no responsibility in the Fentanyl crisis of the United States. Lin Jian, spokesman for the China Ministry of Foreign Affairs [World Trade Organization] Rules and damage the interests of both the countries and the world. “

Since 2013, the availability of the fatal drug has dramatically increased the speed of the overdose of the overdose through synthetic opioids in the USA. In 2022 alone, synthetic opioids such as Fentanyl killed at least 73,838 people in the USA, according to the National Institute for Drug Abuse.

Fentanyl and forerunners of the drug from China will continue to be shipped to the USA in small packages. The forerunners were also shipped to other countries such as Mexico before their end product is smuggled into the USA.

According to a report published by House Select Committee in April 2024 for the Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese regime has a share in some companies that openly for the sale of illegal drugs to America and subsidy of companies.

Since January 2023, the US Ministry of Justice has charged a number of Chinese chemical companies and managers for fentanyl.

Two Chinese citizens, Qingzhou Wang (36) and Yiyi Chen, 32, were convicted on January 29 because they sold more than £ 440 fentanyl precursors to undercover US tractions.

Beijing has also repeatedly announced to support the United States in their approach to fentanyl, and that the regime has the strictest rules in the world for narcotics.

Trump announced new tariffs in China in February and dismissed the public statements of Beijing and said that the “most demanding domestic surveillance network” of the communist regime, the “most comprehensive domestic law enforcement apparatus” and the routine harassment of political dissidents outside of China is not the ability to be the ability to illegally Opioid pidemic not to be missing. It is simply not ready to do this. “