Officials in China, Mexico and Canada have criticised a pledge made by President-elect Donald Trump on social media to impose new tariffs on all three of the United States' largest trading partners on the first day of his presidency.
Mr. Trump said the move, which appears to violate the terms of a free-trade deal he signed into law in 2020, is aimed at clamping down on drugs ? fentanyl especially ? and migrants crossing into the US illegally.
The president-elect said he would sign an executive order immediately after his inauguration introducing a 25% tariff on all goods coming from Mexico and Canada and a 10% tariff on goods from China.
A spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington, said no one will win a trade war or a tariff war and that the idea of China knowingly allowing fentanyl precursors to flow into the United States runs completely counter to facts and reality.
Mexico's finance ministry said the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, a trade pact Trump sponsored during his first term, provided certainty for investors.
Meanwhile, Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, Canada's most populous province, said the tariffs would be devastating to workers and jobs in both the US and Canada.
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