Video footage of a secure northern border. Pleas for carve-outs for American wine and cars made with American parts. Outreach to prominent tariff skeptics in the GOP. Threats of retaliation. As President Donald Trump warns of imminent tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada, he is facing fierce resistance from both countries as well as from within the U.
The president has repeated — as recently as today — that he plans to slap a 25 percent tariff on goods coming from Mexico and Canada and a 10 percent tariff on Chinese products effective Saturday.
Industry groups representing some of the sectors that would be hit hardest by the tariffs — energy, automakers, agriculture and food producers, and tech companies — are likewise lobbying hard against the tariffs, or at least for exceptions for their own particular goods, with open letters to Trump and backchannel lobbying on Capitol Hill.
A former U. That was the case during the first Trump administration, at least partly because U. Customs and Border Protection needs time to to update the U.
That would give Canadian and Mexican officials a bit more time to convince Trump they are doing his bidding in cracking down on illegal border activity — something both countries have been trying to do for months.
