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Mexico makes case to avoid US tariffs as it awaits Trump's decision
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Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday that her administration was waiting to see if U.S. President Donald Trump goes ahead with plans to impose a 25% tariff on Mexican imports.
Her Cabinet secretaries for security and trade among others have been in constant communication with their U.S. counterparts and she said there was still the possibility she and Trump would speak Monday.
Trump had threatened to impose tariffs in February before suspending them at the last minute, when Mexico sent 10,000 National Guard troops to their shared border to crack down on drug trafficking and illegal immigration.
"It’s a decision that depends on the United States government, on the United States president," Sheinbaum told reporters in Mexico City.
"So whatever his decision is, we will make our decisions and there is a plan."
Mexico believes it has made a strong case.
The number of migrants arriving at the U.S. border is the lowest it has been in years.
Last week, Mexico sent 29 drug cartel figures, including the man involved in the 1985 killing of a DEA agent, to the United States.
Security forces have dismantled more than 100 synthetic drug labs in Sinaloa, and systematically weakened the two main factions of the cartel by the same name.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday that Mexico had offered to match the tariffs the U.S. will impose on China.