US pauses tariffs on Mexico for one month
Newshour
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4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Mexico will increase its efforts in combating drug trafficking. Mexico's president, Claudia Sheinbaum, says the US has agreed to take steps to limit the flow of guns south.
Also on the programme: the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, is taking over the running of the US aid agency, saying he's determined to end its refusal to follow Mr Trump's agenda; and we meet the pub landlady who promised her customers a free drink every time her favourite football team scored a goal, only to see them win seven nil.
(Picture: Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum. Credit: Reuters / Cunha)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service |
| 0:08.0 | Studios in central London. I'm Tim Franks. And we're beginning with the latest vigorous shake |
| 0:13.6 | that Donald Trump is delivering to the world order, in this case the world economic order. |
| 0:18.7 | The most immediate effect is, according to the President of Mexico, |
| 0:22.9 | Claudia Seenbaum, that she has persuaded Mr. Trump to suspend the imposition of a 25% tariff on her country. |
| 0:31.4 | Instead of it coming into force on Tuesday, it will be put on hold for one month, |
| 0:35.2 | while Mexico sends 10,000 additional soldiers to its northern border |
| 0:39.6 | to try to stem the flow of smuggled narcotics into the United States. |
| 0:44.4 | This is how the Mexican president announced the outcome of her conversation with President Trump. |
| 0:50.5 | He asked me how long I wanted to pause tariffs. I said forever. |
| 0:55.0 | He asked me, how much time? |
| 0:57.0 | I told him, a month. |
| 0:58.7 | I'm sure that during this month we'll be able to deliver good results for his people and the people of Mexico. |
| 1:04.4 | I told him that we've been working together on migration and that we've had good results. |
| 1:09.2 | We always work respecting and protecting human rights. |
| 1:12.8 | We talked on our common interest in reducing fentanyl trafficking from Mexico to the United States |
| 1:17.7 | and other drugs as well, not just fentanyl. And for his part, President Trump also used the |
| 1:25.0 | word forever, albeit in a rather different context, |
| 1:28.1 | about what he saw is Mexico's commitment to patrol its northern border. |
| 1:32.7 | We had a great talk with Mexico, and we had President Scheinbaum. |
| 1:40.6 | We've had good relationships, but we have to stop fentanyl from coming in, whether I like somebody or not, |
| 1:45.9 | and we have to stop the illegal aliens from coming in. |
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