U.S. President Donald Trump's latest threats to slap tariffs on Mexico may cause relations between the two neighbors to spiral 'out of control,' former U.S. Ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman said Tuesday.
starting June 10. That decision sparked fears that a trade war could open on another front, and stock markets around the world tumbled on that news., the president said the levies were in response to the "severe and dangerous consequences" of the "illegal migration crisis."
"All the previous times we've used tariffs have been trade issues. He's now weaponized the tariffs to use them for other things other than trade. Now it's immigration," he added. "Who knows what's next?"Trump's tariff threats on Mexico came just as the process to ratify the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. The USMCA is a three-country trade deal that's an updated version of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
The trust factor is very low, between Congress and the President, and between our allies and the president right now.Both actions from the Trump administration were "aggressive" moves, and will "definitely ... impact this approval process," according to Heyman. "The Canadians and Mexicans have told me today, 'How do you trust somebody if you reach an agreement the week before to move ahead, and all of a sudden they find some other avenue to put tariffs on you?'" Heyman said.
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