The U.S. cancels Colombia tariff threat
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🗓️ 27 January 2025
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From the BBC World Service: The Trump administration U-turn on tariffs and other sanctions comes as Colombia agreed to take back its citizens who were deported from the U.S. Then, a Chinese artificial intelligence start-up has released its largest language model to rival OpenAI and Meta, and it’s got the U.S. AI sector worried. Plus, we’ll look at the costs to clean up Guatemala’s polluted lakes and rivers.
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| 0:00.0 | The US hits pause on Colombia sanctions. Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service. I'm Leanna Byrne. Good morning. The US says it's not going ahead with tariffs and other sanctions against Colombia after the country agreed to take back its citizens who were deported from the US. President Donald Trump had threatened the measures on |
| 0:21.7 | Sunday after Colombia turned away two military planes carrying deported migrants. The BBC's Oliver |
| 0:27.8 | Faramund reports. After Colombia prevented the planes from landing, President Trump took to social media |
| 0:33.5 | to accuse President Petro of jeopardising US national security. He said he had authorised tariffs of |
| 0:39.7 | 25% on imports from Colombia, as well as travel bans and visa sanctions on government officials. |
| 0:46.0 | But a few hours later, the White House said Colombia's government had agreed to accept, without delay, |
| 0:51.4 | the return of illegal migrants, including on military aircraft. Tariffs would be |
| 0:56.0 | held in reserve, the statement said, and visa sanctions would remain in place until the first |
| 1:00.9 | plane load of deportees had been successfully returned. Oliver Farman there. Now, the BBC's |
| 1:06.3 | Gideon Long is in Bogota. On Saturday, he spoke to people about President Trump's approach to migration. |
| 1:12.2 | Gloria Marcella Rubiano is 45 and unemployed. |
| 1:18.4 | Obviously, all the migrants are going to be deported and there won't be opportunities to go to the United States. |
| 1:23.7 | The visa is going to be very difficult to get, so it's bad news for migrants from Latin America and Colombia. |
| 1:29.4 | On the other hand, I do have some sympathy for Trump because here in Colombia, we know what it's like with all the foreign migrants we've had coming here, mostly Venezuelans. |
| 1:37.1 | They've taken work opportunities away from us because they work for almost nothing, so businesses prefer to hire foreigners. |
| 1:43.3 | So it's good for businesses, but for us, for unemployed people, for ordinary people, it's bad news. |
| 1:49.6 | You're unemployed yourself. |
| 1:51.2 | Would you consider trying to go to the United States? |
| 1:55.1 | I would go, but only with a visa. |
| 1:57.4 | But to go by other means, no, I wouldn't do it. |
| 1:59.9 | I wouldn't risk it. |
| 2:01.7 | I have family here, |
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