Mexico doing ‘everything’ to avoid 30% US tariffs: Thursday’s mañanera recapped

At her Thursday greeting property conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke astir her government’s efforts to stave disconnected caller U.S. tariffs that are owed to instrumentality effect adjacent week.

She besides spoke astir 2 important reductions: 1 successful the magnitude of fentanyl seized by U.S. authorities astatine the Mexico-U.S. borderline and different successful the prevailing ostentation complaint successful Mexico.

Here is simply a recap of the president’s July 24 mañanera.

Mexico doing ‘everything’ it tin to halt 30% US tariffs from taking effect  

Asked astir the United States’ projected 30% tariff connected imports from Mexico that is scheduled to instrumentality effect connected Aug. 1, Sheinbaum said that her authorities is doing “everything” it tin to halt the caller work from entering into force.

“There is simply a squad moving successful the United States with the [U.S.] commerce caput and the treasury secretary,” she said.

“We made a bid of proposals that person to bash with Plan México and besides reducing the commercialized shortage [with the United States], which is 1 of the concerns of President Trump,” Sheinbaum said.

“The commercialized shortage tin beryllium reduced done antithetic mechanisms that don’t impact the system of Mexico. So we’ve been making a bid of proposals and we’ll contiguous them present [at a aboriginal time], hoping that we scope an agreement,” she said.

US announces 30% tariff connected Mexican goods arsenic bilateral talks continue

United States President Donald Trump informed Sheinbaum successful a July 11 missive that “starting August 1, 2025, we volition complaint Mexico a Tariff of 30% connected Mexican products sent into the United States, abstracted from each Sectoral Tariffs,” which presently use to steel, aluminum, vehicles and car parts.

In the letter, Trump noted that the United States “imposed Tariffs connected Mexico” earlier this twelvemonth “to woody with our Nation’s Fentanyl crisis.”

“… Mexico has been helping maine unafraid the border, BUT, what Mexico has done is, is not enough,” helium wrote.

On Thursday, Sheinbaum said she would question to talk to Trump astir the projected 30% tariff “if it’s necessary.”

“… We’re going to spot whether the teams tin find an agreement. … We’re assured we tin scope a bully agreement,” she said.

Sheinbaum touts 50% diminution successful US fentanyl seizures 

Sheinbaum told reporters that the quantity of fentanyl seized by U.S. authorities astatine the Mexico-U.S. borderline has declined 50% since she took bureau past October.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection information shows that 4,367 pounds (1,981 kg) of fentanyl were seized astatine the Mexico-U.S. borderline successful the archetypal six months of 2025, a 54.7% alteration compared to the aforesaid play of past year.

Sheinbaum asserted that the diminution successful fentanyl seizures astatine the borderline — which tin beryllium utilized arsenic a unsmooth proxy to estimation the magnitude of fentanyl being smuggled into the United States from Mexico — is grounds that much of the synthetic opioid is being seized successful Mexico.

That confiscated fentanyl — produced successful Mexico by transgression organizations with precursor chemicals imported from China — doesn’t scope the United States, she stressed.

Security Minister Omar García Harfuch reported connected Tuesday that astir 1.5 tonnes of fentanyl, “and much than 3.5 cardinal fentanyl pills,” person been seized successful Mexico since October.

On Thursday, Sheinbaum attributed fentanyl seizures successful Mexico during her medication to “the full information strategy,” which includes a greater accent connected the usage of quality and probe to combat crime.

#MañaneraPresidenta | ¡QUE EE.UU TAMBIÉN HAGA SU PARTE!

Claudia Sheinbaum dijo que desde octubre de 2024 a la fecha se ha reducido un 50% el tráfico de fentanilo a Estados Unidos. Algo reconocido por las instituciones de ese país.

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— Juncal Solano (@juncalssolano) July 24, 2025

She stressed that authorities are besides cracking down connected methamphetamine, which is besides produced by transgression groups successful clandestine labs.

García Harfuch said connected Tuesday that authorities person dismantled 1,193 clandestine cause labs since the authorities took bureau successful October.

Sheinbaum highlighted that fig connected Thursday, and noted that the estimated fiscal interaction connected organized transgression groups owed to cause confiscations, the dismantling of labs and the apprehension of suspected criminals during her medication is 43 cardinal pesos (US $2.3 billion).

“All of this is portion of the enactment we’re doing, and, arsenic we ever say, we’re besides seeking that, connected the different broadside successful the United States, they bash their part” to combat the organisation of fentanyl and different drugs, she said.

Sheinbaum highlights ‘significant reduction’ successful inflation

A newsman noted that Mexico’s yearly header ostentation rate, arsenic reported by nationalist statistic bureau INEGI, declined to 3.55% successful the archetypal fractional of July. That complaint is wrong the Bank of Mexico’s tolerated scope of 2-4%.

En la primera quincena de julio 2025, el Índice Nacional de Precios al Consumidor #INPC presentó un nivel de 140.731 y representó un aumento de 0.15% respecto a la quincena previa. Con este resultado, la inflación wide anual fue de 3.55%.

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— INEGI INFORMA (@INEGI_INFORMA) July 24, 2025

Sheinbaum archetypal said that beef, pork and chickenhearted prices are “returning to their [normal] price” and helping to easiness inflation.

The complaint successful the archetypal fractional of the period represents a “significant reduction” successful header inflation, she said.

“It went from 4.13% to 3.55%,” Sheinbaum noted, referring successful the archetypal lawsuit to the yearly header complaint successful the 2nd fractional of June.

She said that the caller ostentation information gives the Bank of Mexico the “margin” required to proceed lowering its cardinal involvement rate.

A continuation of the cardinal bank’s easing rhythm “will assistance america … summation investment” successful Mexico, Sheinbaum said.

The Bank of Mexico has chopped its cardinal involvement complaint by 50 ground points aft each of its board’s 4 monetary argumentation meetings this year. The complaint is presently acceptable astatine 8.0%, its lowest level successful astir 3 years.

The cardinal bank’s adjacent monetary argumentation gathering volition instrumentality spot connected Aug. 7.

By Mexico News Daily main unit writer Peter Davies ([email protected])