“We mentioned at the meeting that this was an unfair deal and that we disagreed,” the ministry said, adding that the Mexican government is already in active negotiations with the U.S. and is seeking to avoid the punitive measures. In a letter addressed to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and posted on Trump’s Truth Social platform on Saturday, July 12, the president said the tariffs are a response to Mexico’s failure to stop drug cartels from trafficking fentanyl and other narcotics into the United States. “Despite our strong relationship, you will recall, the United States imposed Tariffs on Mexico to deal with our Nation’s Fentanyl crisis, which is caused, in part, by Mexico’s failure to stop the Cartels, who are made up of the most despicable people who ever walked the Earth, from pouring these drugs into our country,” Trump wrote in the letter.
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