By South China Morning Post | Created at 2025-02-02 02:01:16 | Updated at 2025-02-02 05:47:15
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Mexico will retaliate against tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump with tariffs and other measures of its own, President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced.
Sheinbaum said on Saturday that she had ordered her economy minister to implement tariff and non-tariff measures to defend her country’s interests, after the US slapped across-the-board duties on goods coming from Mexico.
In a lengthy social media post, Sheinbaum stressed that her government did not seek confrontation with its northern neighbour but collaboration and dialogue.
She said she had told her economy minister “to implement Plan B that we have been working on, which includes tariff and non-tariff measures in defence of Mexico’s interests”.
She also hit back at Washington’s accusation that her government has an “intolerable alliance” with drug trafficking groups.
“We categorically reject the slander made by the White House against the Mexican government about alliances with criminal organisations,” Sheinbaum wrote on social media platform X.
