00:00Mexicans voiced criticism of the tariffs announced by the United States, calling them wrong and bound to be fruitless.
00:08U.S. President Donald Trump announced Saturday morning that 30 percent tariffs will be imposed on the European Union and Mexico starting August 1st.
00:18The new tariffs were announced in the letters addressed to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum
00:26and posted on Trump's social media platform TruthSocial.
00:30Mexicans voiced their criticism of the tariffs, noting that Trump is making a mistake and his policies will surely backfire.
00:39I think Trump is taking drastic measures that will affect his important commercial allies like Mexico and Canada and the European Union.
00:49I think Trump is wrong with these strategic economic decisions.
00:56I think it's a strategy designed to continue intimidating Mexico and to control us.
01:03But it gets us nowhere. It's like shooting himself in the foot.
01:07Many of the products we make in Mexico are needed in the United States.
01:11Mexico is one of the U.S. top trading partners, whose exports to the United States were valued at 506 billion U.S. dollars last year.
01:20The main goods are vehicles and auto parts, machinery and agricultural products.
