MADRID 28 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, this Thursday urged his successor in the White House, Donald Trump, to “rethink” the tariffs with which he has threatened imports from China, Mexico and Canada, since the current The president considers that it would be a “counterproductive” measure.
“We are surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and two allies, Mexico and Canada. The last thing we need is to destroy these relations,” Biden said this Thursday, in his first allusion to the measures advanced this week by Trump. ahead of the start of his second term in January.
The magnate has attacked the “open borders” policy and has put on the table tariffs of 25 percent in the case of products from Mexico and Canada, while for China he proposes an additional 10 percent to the tariffs already in force. . He wants to pressure them, among other things, to contain the migratory flow or drug trafficking.
The president, who addressed the press during a visit to a Massachusetts Fire Department on Thanksgiving, has valued relations with China, “a ‘status quo'” that Biden himself considers consolidated after his recent meeting in Peru with his counterpart Xi Jinping.
In this sense, he has said that there is “a direct line” at the political and military level and he trusts that Xi will not make any “mistakes.” Biden has highlighted the release of three American prisoners in China and has indicated that he has already spoken with all of them: “They are happy to return home.”