By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-26 21:27:15 | Updated at 2025-01-30 07:01:42
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Trump Hits Colombia With 25% Tariffs After Blocking US Planes Carrying Migrants
Daily Voice ^ | 01/26/25 | Joe Lombardi
Posted on 01/26/2025 1:06:20 PM PST by SeekAndFind
President Donald Trump says he will impose 25 percent "emergency" tariffs on Colombian goods after the South American nation refused to allow two two flights from the US carrying returning migrants to land.
“The US cannot treat Colombian migrants as criminals," Colombia President Gustavo Petro said in a statement on Sunday, Jan. 26. "I deny the entry of American planes with Colombian migrants into our territory.
“The US must establish a protocol for the dignified treatment of migrants before we receive them."
In response, Trump said Petro's actions jeopardized US national security and that the tariffs would jump to 50 percent in one week.
“These measures are just the beginning,” Trump wrote in a social media post. “We will not allow the Colombian Government to violate its legal obligations with regard to the acceptance and return of the Criminals they forced into the United States.”
Trump also imposed a travel ban for Colombian government officials and visa sanctions on those connected to the country, which has a population of 52 million.
Petro said migrants would be accepted if they were flown in civilian airplanes.
Main Colombian exports to the US include crude petroleum, coffee, and cut flowers.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: colombia; illegals; tariffs
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1 posted on 01/26/2025 1:06:20 PM PST by SeekAndFind
To: SeekAndFind
Well, there goes my favorite Colombian Coffee… I guess I’ll have to try Ethiopian and Vietnamese instead. 😆
2 posted on 01/26/2025 1:08:44 PM PST by SeekAndFind
To: SeekAndFind
Main Colombian exports to the US include crude petroleum, coffee, and cut flowers.
Hmmm, I thought it was cocaine.
3 posted on 01/26/2025 1:10:52 PM PST by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives: Ban Gun Free Zones)
To: SeekAndFind
“Main Colombian exports to the US include crude petroleum, coffee, and cut flowers”.
Hey Joe, you forgot cocaine!!! Tons, tons and tons of cocaine!
4 posted on 01/26/2025 1:10:53 PM PST by exinnj
To: exinnj
Hunter Biden is depressed over this news.
5 posted on 01/26/2025 1:13:30 PM PST by BipolarBob (My doctor says I have HD (whatever that is) and worse, he says I have 80 of them!)
To: SeekAndFind
Main Colombian exports to the US include crude petroleum, coffee, and cut flowers.
Not to mention cocaine.
6 posted on 01/26/2025 1:14:28 PM PST by LouAvul (Rom 8:9b: if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. )
To: SeekAndFind
Main Colombian exports to the US include crude petroleum, coffee, and cut flowers.
Not to mention cocaine.
7 posted on 01/26/2025 1:14:33 PM PST by LouAvul (Rom 8:9b: if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. )
To: BipolarBob
8 posted on 01/26/2025 1:14:36 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: BipolarBob
9 posted on 01/26/2025 1:17:29 PM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
To: All
Update on this:
Columbia caved.
President is sending HIS PLANE to go pick up his criminal invaders.
Trump won bigly here.
Should tell other countries not to try this.
10 posted on 01/26/2025 1:17:46 PM PST by TigerClaws
To: SeekAndFind; All
11 posted on 01/26/2025 1:17:51 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
To: SeekAndFind
“The US cannot treat Colombian migrants as criminals,”
The ones coming back ARE criminals.
12 posted on 01/26/2025 1:20:00 PM PST by TexasGator (11.111''!11)
To: SeekAndFind
Indonesian/Sumatra coffee is my fave.
To: CondoleezzaProtege
14 posted on 01/26/2025 1:22:03 PM PST by Joe 6-pack
To: SeekAndFind
There goes my extra cup of coffee. (But worth the price.)
15 posted on 01/26/2025 1:22:48 PM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral creulty of the Biden-Harris regime.)
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