Shortly after last November’s election, Trump threatened China, Mexico, and Canada with 10% and 25% tariffs, respectively.
By declaring he’d put tariffs on goods from the South American country, the president imperiled a growing influx of foreign investment there.
Latin American leaders don’t like submitting to the United States in imperial mode. They also have an alternative.
In his first week back in the Oval Office, Trump has quickly torn up his predecessor’s alliance-driven foreign policy in favor of an even more rambunctious 2.0 version of “America First.” His provocations have raised tensions with key allies on multiple continents — and set up showdowns with other leaders that,
China's envoy to Colombia seemed to take advantage of the weekend's public dispute between Colombian President Gustavo Petro and US President Donald Trump over immigration and deportation policies to promote Beijing's good ties with Bogota.
U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico. But they are not the only ones scrambling to understand the new administration's strategy. A public spat between Washington and Bogota was the latest brush with a trade war.
The number of Chinese migrants being arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border soared from over 24,000 in 2023 to 36,500 in 2024. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security deported at least three groups of illegal Chinese migrants back to China last year.
A brief standoff with Colombia holds important lessons for how future trade conflicts might unfold in the new Trump administration.
The United States and Colombia, long close partners in anti-narcotics efforts, clashed Sunday over the deportation of migrants and imposed tariffs on each other’s goods in a show of what
American consumers narrowly escaped dramatic increases in the cost of their morning coffee and Valentine’s Day flowers after President Donald Trump on Sunday announced, then quickly rescinded, a 25% tariff on all imports from Colombia — with plans for a whopping 50% tariff to be imposed one week later.