Mexico City, May 31: Mexican foreign minister Marcelo Ebrard, leading an official team of the Mexican delegation, is on Friday heading towards the United States to settle down the issue of planned US trade tariffs on Mexico’s exports, the Latin American country’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said.
In a letter to President Donald Trump, published on Obrador’s official Twitter account, the Mexican president said, “I am suggesting that you instruct your officials, if it is convenient, to receive the representatives of our government, headed by the foreign minister, who, as of tomorrow, will relocate to Washington in order to reach an agreement for the good of both nations.”
“President Trump: social issues are not settled by taxes and coercive measures”, the letter also read.
Al presidente Donald Trump en son de paz. https://t.co/5XdiY7hfeL
— Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_) May 31, 2019
US President has on Thursday threatened to impose fresh tariffs on its neighbour Mexico if the nation does not step up its enforcement move and take steps to halt the illegal immigration.
Mexico vowed to give an “energetic response” to Trump’s announcement of a 5 per cent tariffs hikes on the Mexican goods.
Mexico’s statement comes in retaliation to Trump’s unveiling his plan of levying tariffs on the goods exporting from Mexico if the nation does not step up enforcement action and halt the illegal immigration at the southern border.
The US president further cautioned if Mexico didn’t adhere to Trump’s demand then the US tariffs would rise up to 10 percent of Mexico good imports by July, up to 15 percent by August, 20 percent by September and would reach 25 percent by October.
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