President Donald Trump promised to push ahead on Thursday with plans to impose punishing rates on Mexico and Canada because drugs still flow into the US from those countries.
It means that a surcharge of 25 percent for goods from the border countries will take effect on March 4, he said in a position on his social website.
He also said that on 4 March he would impose an extra service of 10 percent on Chinese goods, which raised the rate at the start of this month.
“Drugs still flow in our country from Mexico and Canada at very high and unacceptable levels,” Trump posted on his social media site.
“A large percentage of these drugs, many of them in the form of Fentanyl, is made in and supplied by China.”
Trump had delayed the rates after Canada and Mexico said they took border security seriously.
And in other cases, Trump used the threat of charges to get his foreign policy.
But he used his social social post to say that time was gone.
President Donald Trump promised to make a move on Thursday with plans to impose punitive rates on Mexico and Canada, because drugs still flow from those countries into the US
Trump used his social report to say that drugs' still flowed into the US
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A fan of Canada has a flag earlier this month
“We cannot allow this scourge to continue to harm the US, and therefore, until it stops or is seriously limited, the proposed rates that are planned to get into force in indeed, indeed, as planned,” he wrote.
“On that date, China will also be charged an extra rate of 10 percent.”
His comments go a way to clarify what he said the day before during his first meeting of the new cabinet in the White House.
Then he seemed to suggest that the rates could be postponed for a month.
But other civil servants said that for a different rates of rates, 'mutual rates', matching tasks imposed by other countries.
Kevin Hassett, director of the White House National Economic Council, said CNBC that Trump would decide on his 'rate policy for all countries' after an assessment expected on 1 April.
The prospect of escalating rates and trade wars has already sent tickles through the global economy.
Consumers say they are afraid of rising prices and are pessimistic about the economic prospects.
Canadian and Mexican officers will meet the counterparts of Trump administration on Thursday and Friday to try to go any extra rates.
The Minister of Public Security of Canada, David McGuinty, said he was convinced that sharpening safety on the border would satisfy the US president.
'The evidence is irrefutable – progress is being made. In my opinion, every test that was put on Canada in terms of showing progress and meeting the standards for the border – I believe they have been satisfied, “he said reporters in Washington, according to Reuters.
