Government of Mexico will demand to be excluded from Trump's new steel and aluminum tariffs

Published at: 04/06/2025 11:00 AM

Last Tuesday, the Secretary of Economy of Mexico, Marcelo Ebrard, strongly criticized the decree of the President of the United States (USA), Donald Trum p, which doubles tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, including the production of the Aztec nation.

“It's an unfair, unsustainable and inconvenient measure,” Ebrard explained, stressing that this trade policy, which increases taxes to 50%, represents a setback and has no technical basis, and added: “I don't think they can be sustained over time. It's a tariff that's going to have to be adjusted, because the economic impact is so big.”

The secretary stressed that the United States maintains a surplus in the steel trade balance with Mexico, that is, it exports more steel than it imports from the country. “It doesn't make sense to impose a tariff on a product where you have a surplus. Normally the opposite is done: when there is a deficit,” he explained.

Mazo News Team