Mexico on Tuesday began a deployment of 10,000 soldiers on the border with the United States to stop drug trafficking. The decision is part of the agreement so that the American president Donald Trump did not impose 25 percent tariffs on the products of the country.
“They began to send (the military). The plan was made by the general secretary (of the defense) with his team,” said the Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum During its usual morning press conference. The president added that the soldiers were mobilized from other states less urged by violence, although the operation did not detail.
Mexico sent military to its border with the United States
“It is a deployment that does not leave the rest of the country without security,” he said, because the plan created by the Division General Ricardo Trevilla It foresees that the members of the National Guard who will go to the northern border, were in areas where there is no “security problem.” “Others that were in the southern part of the states of the border, because they go to the northern border” , Sheinbaum emphasized.
From the early hours of the day, the Mexican press reported mobilization of military and elements of the National Guard to different cities of the border with the United States such as Tijuana and Matamoros. The events occur after Sheinbaum and Trump agreed a pause “for a month” to the tariffs announced by the US president.
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Tariffs concern Mexico for being the largest commercial partner in the United States, with a value of exports to that country of 490,183 million dollars in 2023, almost 30% of the Mexican gross domestic product (GDP). These are more than 80% of Mexican exports, so the rates would have meant an important blow to the second largest economy in Latin America after Brazil.
Relief in Mexican automakers for the postponement of Donald Trump tariffs
The agreement between the United States and Mexico for delay the implementation of tariffs, as part of Donald Trump’s protectionist measuresbrought relief for Mexican companies, especially for automakers based in that country.
Trump had decided to impose import tariffs by arguing that “they produce illegal fentanil and allow it to distribute it” in the United States. The commercial war opened by Trump by announcing new tariffs to the three main partners of the country, Mexico, Canada and China, collapsed markets, wrapped in a state of panic before the possibility that more than three decades of economic integration are about to collapse.
A telephone conversation between Trump and the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaummanaged to close a first agreement and offered a pause and a dose of relief to the conflict. The Mexican automotive industry celebrated the one -month pause for 25% tariffs that the United States was going to impose on Mexico, although it pointed out that uncertainty will remain in the following years.
Source: Ambito
