Mexican president on Trump’s tariff talks

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Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum spoke to U.S. counterpart Donald Trump about tariffs – and then told the media what they had discussed.   #trump #mexico

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00:00We reached an agreement, it is in the agreement we published, to place more National Guard

00:05in the northern border in order to protect the border and prevent drug trafficking, specially

00:09fentanyl trafficking from Mexico to the US.

00:12I told him we wanted him to pause the tariffs, so we reached that agreement.

00:16But I also explained to him that the amount of high-potency weapons that enter from the

00:19United States and Mexico is a serious issue.

00:21Finally, he insisted on the commercial deficit that, according to him, the United States

00:26has against Mexico.

00:28I explained to him that we were commercial partners, and that this was the consequence

00:31of being commercial partners.

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