Mexico's president threatened Trump with retaliatory duties

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said the country could retaliate after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's promise to impose import duties on Mexican goods. The Associated Press (AP) reported the news on Nov. 26.

Earlier in the day, Trump promised to impose an additional 10% duties on goods from China, as well as 25% on all products from Mexico and Canada. He said China has failed to fulfill a promise to impose the death penalty on fentanyl traffickers, causing "drugs to flood" into the U.S. - mostly through Mexico - on an unprecedented scale.

"One tariff will be followed by another in response and so on until we jeopardize common enterprises," Sheinbaum said.

At the same time, the president noted that she is willing to participate in negotiations on the issue. She also emphasized that drugs are an American problem.

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Liu Pengyu, spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in the United States, commenting on Trump's statement about his intention to impose additional duties, said that neither side can win the trade war. He also called support for cooperation in the fight against drugs one of the important agreements between Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden.