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President Donald Trump on Monday said he’d delay implementing a 25 percent tax on Mexican imports afterMexican president Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to further militarize her country’s northern border and send a high-level delegation to negotiate next steps.
In a statement posted to his Truth Social platform, Trump said he’d just concluded a “very friendly conversation” with Sheinbaum, who he created with agreeing to dispatch 10,000 soldiers to the US-Mexico border and charge them with halting flows of illicit fentanyl and stopping migrants from heading northward into the US.
Trump also said he and Sheinbaum had also agreed that he would delay imposing the import taxes and she would in turn delay any retaliatory tariffs while Mexico and the US stood up what Trump described as a “high-level” dialogue between Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, and a Mexican delegation.
He added that he, too, was looking forward to participating in those negotiations with an eye towards what he described as a “deal” between the two countries.
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