With the certainty of an consummated fact, and under the stealth that the night imposes, The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, He met before he completed Friday with several members of his cabinet. The meeting in the National Palace, a few hours after the announced entry into force of 25 % tariffs imposed by the president of the United States, Donald Trump, served for Sheinbaum de la Fuente, the director for North America of the SRE, Roberto Velasco, those responsible for the Secretariats of the Interior, Rosa Icela Rodríguez; Economy, Marcelo Ebrard; Hacienda, Rogelio Ramírez de la O, and other important officials. The businesswoman Altagracia Gómez Sierra, coordinator of the Regional Economic Development Advisory Council and Company Relocation was also added.
The content of the exchanges was not filtered to the press. Shortly before, Trump had said that nothing could do Mexico, Canada or China to avoid new levies because, he said, they are not a negotiation instrument.
The silence of the meeting at the National Palace contrasted with the eloquence of the president in a previous act aimed at promoting a social program. Sheinbaum assured those present to be calm for reasons that have nothing to do with the drift of bilateral relations but with the ability of the internal front to face eventual turbulence. “We have an extraordinary townthe people of Mexico is the best in the world, “he said and referred to” those who live here in our territory and those who are on the other side of the border, which are also the best, heroes and heroines of the Homeland. to the people, to deliver the resources delivered by the people of Mexico in their taxes to return to the people of Mexico. “
Uncertainty
Mexico has a commercial surplus with the United States of about 157,000 million dollars and received in 2024 remittances on the other side of the border for almost 60,000 million dollars. The threat Trump had formulated during the electoral campaign, when he justified tariffs as a way for Mexico to stop illegal migration and drug trafficking, It has ceased to be a conjecture or proselytizing agitation. The supposed coldness with which the government analyzes the situation, and the eventual existence of contingent plans to face the novelty, finds public opinion mired in bewilderment and fear.
“What do Donald Trump really want? Its apparent closure to negotiate before the decision to impose tariffs on Mexico does not block with its history of launching commercial threats and then obtaining something in return, “the newspaper ´reforma` was asked.” Trump has no care that these measures re -relat Inflation in your country and, therefore, the price of money rises again. Nor does he worry about the destruction of those economic sectors that currently depend on export, “said Ricardo Raphael, columnist of ´Milenio`.
The Editorial of ´La ‘remembers in a similar direction that the Secretary of Economy, Marcelo Ebrard, has warned that Tariffs will impact the costs that US households They pay for cars, computers, televisions – of all which Mexico is the main exporter to its northern neighbor – fruits, vegetables, meat and beer. “Because of the way in which American integration was designed, tariffs against Mexico are, to a large extent, against US companies that directly or indirectly transferred their production processes to Mexico.” Ebrard recalled that Mexico’s main exporter to the United States is General Motors, “so companies on the other side of the Bravo River will resent as much as those in the south the affectation of the commercial war.”
According to ´The online policy ‘the government has ready the final touch -ups to respond to the White House tariff on the holiday. Mexico would stop buying the pig that imported from Iowa, Indiana and North Carolina, all places where Trump won comfortably in November. “Ebrard expects the Mexican demand for pork to replace that supply essentially with The European Union, a block that recently renewed its commercial treaty with Mexico“. The same would happen with the chicken that export states of agricultural court such as Arkansas, Georgia and Alabama.” The bet is to replace them with providers from Brazil and other partners of South America. “Other businesses to affect would be that of apples and certain cereals. “Ebrard is convinced that Mexico has better tools than the United States to replace demand, especially for the amount of commercial fronts that the Republican government has opened.”
