{"id":2136,"date":"2025-02-02T06:15:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T06:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2025-02-02T06:15:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T06:15:30","slug":"trump-implements-tariffs-on-mexico-canada-and-china-sparking-trade-war-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/2025\/02\/02\/trump-implements-tariffs-on-mexico-canada-and-china-sparking-trade-war-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Implements Tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China, Sparking Trade War Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has announced the imposition of tariffs starting Tuesday, with a 25% duty on imports from Canada and Mexico, and 10% on goods from China. These tariffs will remain in place until the US addresses the national emergency regarding fentanyl and illegal immigration, according to a White House fact sheet. While Canadian energy imports will be taxed at a 10% rate, Mexican energy imports will face the full 25% tariff.<\/p><p>The tariffs mark the fulfillment of a promise Trump made after his presidential victory and are likely to provoke retaliatory measures, potentially leading to a trade war. The new duties come at a time when these three countries are the US\u2019s primary trading partners, raising concerns about rising prices and economic disruption.<\/p><p>Officials in Canada and Mexico have expressed strong opposition, with Canada threatening counter-tariffs, and Mexico indicating a similar response. The tariffs, starting at 12:01 AM EST on Tuesday, will not apply to imports already en route prior to the deadline.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has announced the imposition of tariffs starting Tuesday, with a 25% duty on imports from Canada and Mexico, and 10% on goods from China. These tariffs will remain in place until the US addresses the national emergency regarding fentanyl and illegal immigration, according to a White House fact sheet. While Canadian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international-en"},"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2137,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions\/2137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}