By Ana Swanson for the New York Times
The US president also said he would impose an additional 10 percent tariff on China as he tries to force other countries to take more action on drug shipments.
Tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico will go into effect on March 4 “as scheduled,” President Trump said on Thursday morning, claiming that those countries were still not doing enough to stop the flow of drugs into the United States.
The president wrote in a post on Truth Social that China will also face an additional 10 percent tariff next week, on top of the 10 percent he imposed earlier this month.
“Drugs are still pouring into our Country from Mexico and Canada at very high and unacceptable levels,” he said. “A large percentage of these Drugs, much of them in the form of Fentanyl, are made in, and supplied by, China.” He added that the levies were necessary until the flow of drugs “stops, or is seriously limited.”
In the Oval Office on Thursday afternoon, Mr. Trump said progress had been made on reducing the flow of migrants, but said he hadn’t seen that same progress on drugs, particularly fentanyl.
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