Sheinbaum still seeking US tariffs deal: Tuesday’s mañanera recapped

At the precise commencement of her Tuesday greeting property conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum work out a connection successful effect to U.S. President Donald Trump’s determination to enforce 25% tariffs connected Mexican exports. She said that:

• The tariffs were imposed connected Tuesday contempt the USMCA escaped commercialized pact “signed by President Trump himself” during his archetypal term.
• Her authorities took “forceful actions against organized transgression and the trafficking of fentanyl” portion the tariffs were suspended during the past 30 days.
• There is nary “reason” oregon “justification” for the imposition of tariffs, fixed the actions the Mexican authorities has taken against organized transgression implicit the past 5 months.
• The “opioid usage crisis” successful the United States “began with the irresponsible approval” of medicine drugs by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
• Mexico has “decided to respond” to the tariffs with its ain “tariff and nontariff measures” that she volition denote Sunday.
• She was definite that “together we volition get done this.”

President Sheinbaum pointed retired astatine her regular property league Tuesday that the tariffs were going into effect contempt the USMCA commercialized pact, which President Donald Trump signed successful 2018. (Wikimedia Commons)

Sheinbaum besides said that her authorities “emphatically denies and categorically condemns” the “offensive, defamatory and baseless statement” successful which the White House claimed that “the authorities of Mexico has afforded harmless havens for the cartels to prosecute successful the manufacturing and proscription of unsafe narcotics.”

By not announcing Mexico’s retaliatory measures until Sunday, the president buys herself clip to possibly scope a woody with Trump this week.

‘What volition hap with this? Products volition go much expensive’ 

Later successful her property conference, Sheinbaum highlighted that Mexico is the United States’ apical commercialized partner.

“In different words, a precise important portion of what radical successful the United States consume, peculiarly cars, are made here,” she said.

“But these exports person to bash with commercialized and productive integration [in North America]. … It’s not that implicit cars are made present and exported to the United States,” Sheinbaum said, highlighting that galore parts that spell into a finished Mexican-made conveyance are imported from the U.S.

“There is precise important economical integration that has occurred [between Mexico and the U.S.] passim the past 40 years,” Sheinbaum said. (Gustavo Alberto/Cuartoscuro)

“There is precise important economical integration that has occurred passim the past 40 years, and peculiarly successful the latest play … [because] aft the pandemic, a batch of companies that were successful China decided to travel to Mexico and acceptable up here, oregon companies already successful Mexico decided to summation their capacities,” she said.

“… This thought that jobs are lone created present is not correct,” Sheinbaum added.

“They are created connected some sides [of the border] precisely owed to this [economic] integration. What’s going to hap now? The United States imposes a 25% taxation connected each Mexican exports without distinction. What does that mean? That what is produced present volition outgo 25% much erstwhile it goes to the United States,” she said.

“If we instrumentality the aforesaid instrumentality taxation it volition outgo different 25%,” Sheinbaum said, referring to products that transverse the borderline during the accumulation process.

“And sending it backmost [to the U.S.] again, different 25%. What volition hap with this? Products volition go much expensive,” she said.

Tariff concern could alteration arsenic aboriginal arsenic Wednesday  

Sheinbaum told reporters that she volition talk to Trump by telephone sometime aboriginal this week.

Asked erstwhile the telephone would happen, she responded “probably Thursday.”

The Mexican authorities is of people seeking to person Mexico’s tariffs lifted by the United States precise soon.

It remains to beryllium seen whether that volition happen, but United States Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Fox Business connected Tuesday day that helium believes Trump volition “work thing out” with Mexico and Canada vis-à-vis the 25% tariffs helium imposed connected their exports connected Tuesday.

President Trump is getting deals done for the American people. “Both the Mexicans and the Canadians were connected the telephone with maine each time today, trying to amusement that they’ll bash amended and the President is listening.” Stay tuned!

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— Howard Lutnick (@howardlutnick) March 4, 2025

Howard Lutnick’s interrogation by Fox Business connected Tuesday, successful which helium hinted astatine the U.S. being consenting to see compromising connected tariffs connected Mexico.

“It’s not going to beryllium a intermission … but I deliberation he’s going to fig [something] out, you bash much and I’ll conscionable you successful the mediate immoderate way, and we’re astir apt going to beryllium announcing that tomorrow,” helium said.

“So determination successful the mediate volition apt beryllium the result — the president moving with the Canadians and Mexicans but not each the way,” Lutnick said, seemingly indicating that Trump could trim the complaint of tariffs connected Mexican and Canadian exports.

‘We person to respect President Trump adjacent though we don’t hold with a batch of decisions helium makes’

Sheinbaum said that her authorities is work bound to “respect President Trump.”

“He was elected, elected by his people, and it’s up to america to respect him, adjacent though we don’t hold with a batch of decisions helium makes, peculiarly those that impact Mexico,” she said.

“But we ever question dialogue, coordination, always. Regardless of the issue, we person to question coordination,” Sheinbaum said.

The president connected galore occasions has expressed her absorption to Trump’s wide deportation plan. She has besides spoken retired connected Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico and opined that the designation of Mexican cause cartels arsenic overseas violent organizations is not “helpful.”

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