President Donald Trump will slap a 30% tariff on all imports from Mexico and the European Union beginning Aug. 1, he wrote in letters to their leaders posted to his Truth Social account on July 12.
“Mexico has been helping me secure the border. BUT, what Mexico has done, is not enough,” Trump wrote in a letter to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. “Our relationship has been, unfortunately, far from Reciprocal,” he wrote in a separate letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
In recent days, Trump has slapped tariffs of at least 20% set to begin Aug. 1 on more than a dozen countries. It comes after Trump said he would impose reciprocal tariffs on countries around the world pending a deal, but later pushed back the date they would come into effect by 90 days.
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