White House to impose tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China due to ‘invasion of illegal fentanyl’

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that President Donald Trump volition execute tariffs upon Mexico, Canada and China starting Saturday.

Trump’s economical program during his run called for extending the 2017 taxation cuts and imposing tariffs ranging from 10% to 20% connected each imported goods. For countries similar China, that fig could spell up to 60%.

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds her archetypal quality league successful the Brady Press Briefing Room astatine the White House connected Jan. 28, 2025, successful Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

These countries volition look these tariffs due to the fact that they person allowed an "unprecedented penetration of amerciable fentanyl that is sidesplitting American citizens," according to Leavitt. 

"The president volition beryllium implementing time a 25% tariff connected Mexico, 25% tariffs connected Canada, and a 10% tariff connected China for the amerciable fentanyl they person sourced and allowed to administer into our country, which has killed tens of millions of Americans," Leavitt told reporters Friday. "These are promises made and promises kept."

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While Canadian President Justin Trudeau said Friday that Canada was prepared to respond to immoderate tariffs executed, Leavitt said that the tariffs are not expected to spark a commercialized warfare with Canada and that Trump would respond to Trudeau successful "due time."