Leaders react to President Trump's tariffs on Mexico and Canada

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- President Donald Trump says caller tariffs are safeguarding the federation arsenic imports from Mexico and Canada volition present beryllium taxable to a 25% tariff.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did not mince words arsenic helium announced retaliatory tariffs.

"Although it's not successful my wont to hold with the Wall Street Journal, they constituent retired that Donald, though you are a precise astute guy, this is simply a precise dumb happening to do," said Trudeau.

While tariffs make economical worries, Trump has said the tariffs are to enactment unit connected bordering neighbors to halt the travel of amerciable drugs coming into the United States.

Hopefully, helping tackle the Fentanyl crisis.

"When it comes to the tariffs, what I judge is happening is that Donald Trump is asking Mexico to intervene," explained Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux.

"Start to go a affirmative power successful regards to allowing China to bring immoderate of that fentanyl and those drugs into the cartels wherever the cartels tin past administer crossed the border."

Tulare County saw 50 fentanyl-related deaths past year, and 8 truthful acold this year.

Although tariffs whitethorn not straight halt the travel of drugs, they person enactment unit connected the Mexican authorities to ace down connected the cartels, cutting disconnected the cause supply.

But it won't extremity the request for drugs present successful the U.S.

"They are gonna find immoderate mode imaginable to beryllium capable to administer those drugs, truthful immoderate of the interest whitethorn beryllium that methamphetamine labs, organisation labs, oregon amerciable cause labs volition beryllium created person to home," explained Sheriff Boudreaux.

"We volition support an eye, a adjacent oculus connected that, hoping that doesn't instrumentality place."

A 10% US tariff connected Chinese imports is besides successful effect.

China announced retaliatory tariffs of up to 15% connected imports of US workplace products, including chicken, pork, soy, and beef, and expanded controls connected doing concern with cardinal US companies.

That means section farmers volition person a harder clip selling their products, but volition besides look higher prices for the products they request to operate.

"As acold arsenic the outgo and however things rotation successful the system the extremity idiosyncratic ever takes connected astir of the cost. Whether it beryllium fertilizers, oregon ag chemicals to spray, oregon trucking and fuel, things similar that, it ever gets passed onto the adjacent idiosyncratic paying the bill," said David Borba, a Tulare County farmer.

Farmers besides whitethorn that tariffs could interaction however overmuch gets sold and astatine what price.

The tariffs announced by China volition instrumentality effect connected Monday.

However, goods already successful transit volition beryllium exempt until April 12.

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