By David Ljunggren (Reuters) -Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrives in Mexico City on Thursday for a two-day mission designed to improve recently strained ties and seek a common front in crucial
The decision marks a withdrawal from the 2019 agreement to suspend anti-dumping investigation on fresh tomatoes. Mexico supplies nearly 70% of tomatoes in the US.
The EU & Mexico, both among the largest US trading partners responded by calling the tariffs unfair & disruptive while pledging to continue to negotiate with the US.
The brazen killing of Valeria Marquez sent shockwaves through a country facing high levels of violence against women. President Sheinbaum said Mexico's security cabinet is working to solve the case.
Mexico handed over Rafael Quintero, implicated in killing DEA agent Enrique Camarena, as well as Jose Angel Canobbio, who is from a faction of Sinaloa Cartel, led by El Chapo's sons.
While the deal eases the pressure for now on Mexico, prospects for Canada and China appeared dim, as Trump and his team kept up their criticism of their northern neighbour in particular.
Setting the stage for a trade war with Canada, Mexico & China, Trump has announced 25 percent tariffs on goods from the 2 North American countries & 10 percent tariffs on Chinese exports.
Mexico has been preparing possible retaliatory tariffs on imports from the US, ranging from 5% to 20%, on pork, cheese, fresh produce, manufactured steel and aluminum.
Trump made the announcement while signing executive orders in Oval Office, hours after his inauguration. He has repeatedly threatened tariffs on US’ neighbours, China & even EU allies.
If this step even partially achieves its desired results, there will be so much dislocation in the country’s economic structure as to prove a national calamity, advocate AG Mulgaokar wrote in 1969.
Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.
In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
COMMENTS