{"id":2397551,"date":"2025-01-31T14:27:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-mexico-canada-and-china-tariffs-a-go-white-house\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T14:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:28:17","slug":"trumps-mexico-canada-and-china-tariffs-a-go-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-mexico-canada-and-china-tariffs-a-go-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Mexico, Canada, and China tariffs a go: White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrumps-mexico-canada-and-china-tariffs-a-go-white-house%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2397551&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The White House has confirmed that President Donald Trump plans\u200b to impose meaningful tariffs starting\u2064 Saturday. Specifically, a 25% tariff will be applied to \u200bboth Mexico and Canada, along with a 10% tariff on China. The tariffs are framed as a response to illegal fentanyl trafficking linked to these countries,which has contributed to a high number of deaths in the \u2063U.S. \u2064Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated these \u200ctariffs fulfill promises \u2064made during Trump&#8217;s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Despite rumors of a\u2062 delay \u2062until March 1 and potential exemptions, Leavitt clarified that\u200b the tariffs would\u2063 be implemented \u200bas scheduled.\u2062 Critics warn that these tariffs could lead to renewed inflation; however, Leavitt maintained that they\u2062 would not impact inflation negatively, citing\u200c lower inflation rates during Trump&#8217;s previous term. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has expressed readiness to \u2063respond\u200c if\u200d the\u200c tariffs proceed.\u200d The duration of these tariffs and conditions for their removal remain \u2062unspecified, but they \u200care linked to concerns over fentanyl and illegal \u2063immigration.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">White House says Trump&rsquo;s Mexico, Canada, and China tariffs a go<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1945998\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> will implement sweeping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tariffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">tariffs<\/a> on Saturday, the White House has confirmed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;The president will be implementing tomorrow a 25% tariff on Mexico, 25% tariffs on Canada, and a 10% tariff on China for the illegal fentanyl that they have sourced and allowed to distribute into our country, which has killed tens of millions of Americans,&rdquo; press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Friday. &ldquo;These are promises made and promises kept by the president.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump campaigned heavily on tariffs and threatened to implement them against Canada and Mexico on Inauguration Day, which was later pushed back to Saturday. The stated reason is that illegal drugs and migrants have been allowed to pour across the northern and southern borders, and Trump has not been satisfied with results after meeting with the presidents of those two countries in recent weeks. <\/p>\n<p>China&rsquo;s tariffs, while separate, are solely for what the Trump administration says is its role in trafficking fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-suggests-white-house-still-views-inflation-as-transitory-defends-blaming-abbott-for-supply-chain-issues\/\" title=\"Psaki Suggests White House Still Views Inflation As \u2018Transitory,\u2019 Defends Blaming Abbott For Supply Chain Issues\">afternoon press briefing<\/a>, news circulated that Trump would delay the tariffs again to March 1 and that there would be a process for the countries to seek exemptions. Leavitt said those reports are false. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I was just with the president in the Oval Office, and I can confirm that tomorrow, the Feb. 1 deadline that President Trump put into place,&rdquo; Leavitt said.<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt did not have anything to add when asked about possible exemptions for oil imports but said details of the tariffs would be publicly available on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Trump critics say the tariffs could reignite inflation, but Leavitt argued that won&rsquo;t be the case, pointing to an average 1.9% inflation rate during his first term. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When President Trump left office, inflation was 1.4%,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;President Trump is going to do everything he possibly can to cut the inflation crisis that the previous administration imposed on the American people. And he will continue to effectively utilize tariffs.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>She accused the media of looking at the issue &ldquo;in a microscope&rdquo; rather than in full context, saying Trump&rsquo;s energy policies and other measures will grow the economy while keeping inflation low. <\/p>\n<p>Trump often uses tariffs as a threat in order to try to implement changes to other policies, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">recently promising import duties<\/a> on Colombia if that country would not agree to repatriate citizens who illegally entered the U.S. Colombia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3301185\/tariffs-on-hold-colombian-president-agrees-to-trump-demands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"agreed\">agreed<\/a> to Trump&rsquo;s terms within hours. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The press secretary did not say how long the tariffs will be in place or what it will take for the three countries to remove them, but she reiterated that each has played a role in fentanyl and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-puts-his-foot-down-orders-waves-of-illegal-migrants-flocking-to-southern-border-dont-come\/\" title=\"Biden Puts His Foot Down, Orders Waves Of Illegal Migrants Flocking To Southern Border \u2018Don\u2019t Come\u2019\">illegal immigrants flooding<\/a> the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he is &ldquo;ready with a response&rdquo; to tariffs if Trump proceeds with them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1945998\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1945998\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump to impose tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2635,"featured_media":2397554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Trump-tariffs-Canada-Mexico-China.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[5370,13991,3634],"class_list":["post-2397551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-mexico","tag-tariffs","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Trump-tariffs-Canada-Mexico-China.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2397551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397556,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397551\/revisions\/2397556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2397554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}