US-Mexico Negotiations – Agreement to avoid tariffs reached, announces Trump
Mexico in order to avoid trade tariffs as threatened by US President Donald Trump has agreed to take “unprecedented steps” to stop the flow of migrants to the USA.
Trump via his official twitter handle announced that “the United States of America has reached a signed agreement with Mexico. The Tariffs scheduled to be implemented by the U.S. on Monday, against Mexico, are hereby indefinitely suspended. Mexico, in turn, has agreed to take strong measures to stem the tide of Migration through Mexico, and to our Southern Border. This is being done to greatly reduce, or eliminate, Illegal Immigration coming from Mexico and into the United States. Details of the agreement will be released shortly by the State Department”.
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Trump had declared an emergency on the US-Mexico border in February this year, saying it was necessary in order to tackle what he claimed was a crisis with thousands of undocumented migrants crossing the frontier. This was followed by his recent threats to implement import duties of 5%, rising every month, unless Mexico acted to curb migration.
Key terms of the Agreement:
Some details of the agreement between USA and Mexico disclosed are:
Mexico will deploy its National Guard throughout the country from Monday, pledging up to 6,000 additional troops along Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala and that Mexico will take “decisive action” in tackling human smuggling networks
While the USA will expand its programme of sending asylum seekers back to Mexico while they awaited reviews of their claims. In return, the US would “work to accelerate” the adjudication process.
Both countries pledged to “strengthen bilateral co-operation” over border security, including “co-ordinated actions” and information sharing.
The declaration added that discussions would continue, and final terms be accepted and announced within 90 days.
Should Mexico’s actions “not have the expected results”, the agreement warned that additional measures could be taken, but did not specify what these would be.