Retaliatory tariffs are still on the table, says Sheinbaum: Tuesday’s mañanera recapped

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Many Mexicans are presently successful a authorities of corporate suspense.

Will the United States enforce further tariffs connected imports from Mexico adjacent week? How volition Mexico respond if it does?

How galore radical were killed astatine the spot successful Jalisco that has been described arsenic a cartel “extermination camp”? Who were the victims? What truly happened astatine the present infamous ranch?

These questions are astatine the halfway of Mexico’s existent nationalist conversation.

At President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Tuesday greeting property conference, they were erstwhile again a cardinal absorption of the dialog betwixt officials and reporters. But the questions remain.

Mexico could denote retaliatory tariffs connected April 3

Sheinbaum told reporters that her authorities volition hold until April 2 earlier deciding whether it volition retaliate against U.S. protectionism.

The Trump medication is readying to enforce astatine slightest immoderate reciprocal tariffs connected imports from United States’ trading partners connected April 2. The U.S. authorities has already imposed 25% tariffs connected each alloy and aluminum imports and 25% duties connected goods from Mexico and Canada not covered by the USMCA escaped commercialized pact. It remains to beryllium seen whether the United States volition intensify the battle connected its largest commercialized partner.

Sheinbaum said that successful meetings with the United States government, Mexican officials are “providing each the information” astir the interaction that further tariffs connected Mexican goods would person connected some the U.S. and Mexico.

“There is simply a batch of connection betwixt [Economy] Minister [Marcelo] Ebrard and [Commerce] Secretary [Howard] Lutnick. They are successful imperishable communication,” she said.

Ebrard has antecedently asserted that broad tariffs connected Mexican goods would origin important occupation losses successful the United States and summation prices for American consumers. The Mexican system would spell into recession if broad tariffs connected Mexican exports to the U.S. were maintained for an extended play of time, according to immoderate economists.

Sheinbaum said connected Tuesday that she volition denote measures against United States imports connected April 3 if request be.

“According to what they contiguous connected April 2, we would denote measures, if that’s the case, connected April 3,” she said.

On galore occasions, Sheinbaum has expressed assurance that Mexico volition debar retaliatory tariffs connected its exports to the United States arsenic Mexico doesn’t enforce duties connected the bulk of imports from the U.S. That whitethorn good beryllium the case, but President Donald Trump is not known for being predictable, and has already shown helium is consenting to usage tariffs to unit Mexico to bash much to stem the travel of drugs and migrants to the United States.

For her part, Sheinbaum has repeatedly stressed that Mexico, the United States and Canada should respect the escaped commercialized rules established by the USMCA successful bid to support North America’s capableness to efficaciously vie with different regions of the world.

Cartel ranch successful Jalisco present nether national control

Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero told reporters that “federal authorities” are present successful power of the ranch successful Teuchitlán, Jalisco, wherever the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) trained recruits and perchance killed and/or cremated a ample fig of people.

Sheinbaum confirmed 11 days agone that the Federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR) would instrumentality implicit the Teuchitlán case, but she said connected Monday that the spot was inactive successful the “custody” of the Jalisco Attorney General’s Office.

Gertz said Tuesday that FGR forensic experts are present entering the spot “to find the world astir what is there.”

On Monday, national Security Minister Omar García Harfuch said that authorities had confirmed that the CJNG trained recruits astatine the Izaguirre Ranch, but asserted that the beingness of quality remains connected the spot has not been definitively established.

He noted that the FGR has been tasked with carrying retired an probe into the spot and the illicit activities that allegedly took spot there, but stressed that the authorities itself presently has nary grounds that the ranch was an “extermination camp,” arsenic it has been described successful galore media reports.

On Tuesday, a newsman asked Gertz whether the FGR would let journalists to sojourn the property, arsenic the Jalisco Attorney General’s Office did past week.

“First fto america instrumentality possession [of the ranch], we’re doing that astatine the moment. Our national forces are going successful astatine the moment, our experts are going in, they’re taking possession of the property,” the lawyer wide said.

“And we’re going to beryllium reporting everything that is indispensable each day,” Gertz said earlier indicating that journalists could beryllium allowed to sojourn the tract again arsenic agelong arsenic their beingness “doesn’t hinder our work.”

Asked whether helium was readying to sojourn the ranch himself, the lawyer wide responded:

“Those who person to beryllium determination are the [forensic] experts. I can’t regenerate the relation of experts. I person the work of an institution. And the experts person to springiness maine an relationship of everything they find and I person the work to marque it known to everyone. That’s my work.”

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

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