U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that his proposed 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods will go into effect on March 4 as scheduled because drugs are still pouring into the U.S. from those countries, APA reports quoting Reuters.
Trump also said he would impose an additional 10% duty on Chinese goods on that day. This would appear to be on top of the 10% tariff that he levied on Feb. 4 on imports from China.
Trump said drugs were still coming into the U.S. at "very high and unacceptable levels," with a large percentage of them the deadly opioid fentanyl.
"We cannot allow this scourge to continue to harm the USA, and therefore, until it stops, or is seriously limited, the proposed TARIFFS scheduled to go into effect on MARCH FOURTH will, indeed, go into effect, as scheduled," Trump said in a post on his Truth Social media site. "China will likewise be charged an additional 10% Tariff on that date."
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