Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced retaliatory tariffs against the United States Saturday night after President Donald Trump imposed 25 percent tariffs on Mexican imports into the United States earlier in the evening.
Sheinbaum said in a statement posted to social media platform X that she has directed her Secretary of Economy to implement “tariff and non-tariff measures in defense of Mexico’s interests.”
She called the White House’s accusations that her government was working in alliance with drug trafficking cartels “slander.”
She said the tariffs were her “Plan B,” and proposed to Trump to “establish a working group with our best public health and security teams.”…