He told reporters he decided to stick to the Tuesday deadline for Canada and Mexico
WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump on Thursday said his proposed 25% tariff s on Mexican and Canadian goods will take effect on March 4 along with an extra 10% duty on Chinese imports because deadly drugs are still pouring into the US from those countries.
Trump told reporters he decided to add the extra tariffs on China and stick to the Tuesday deadline for Canada and Mexico given what his administration sees as insufficient progress on curbing fentanyl flows into the country. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 72,776 people died from synthetic opioids in 2023 in the US, chiefly from fentanyl.Customs and Border Patrol agents seized 991 pounds of fentanyl at the southwest border in January 2025, down 50.5% from a year earlier, but still enough to kill many millions of Americans, the White House official said.
Dean Cheng, senior adviser at the US Institute of Peace, said the rising tariffs were part of a broad push by Trump to respond to Chinese challenges that also included the State Department's removal of wording about not supporting Taiwan independence to tougher scrutiny of US-listed Chinese companies.Thus far, Chinese President Xi Jinping has not engaged in negotiations over fentanyl, instead applying limited 10% retaliatory duties on US energy and farm equipment.
Trump has targeted early April for implementing broader "reciprocal tariffs" to match the import duty rates of other countries and offset their other restrictions.
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