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U.S. President Donald Trump will pause new tariffs on Mexico for one month after Mexico agreed to reinforce its northern border with 10,000 National Guard members to stem the flow of illegal drugs, particularly fentanyl, he said on Monday on social media.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said the agreement also includes a U.S. commitment to act to prevent trafficking of high-powered weapons to Mexico. The two leaders spoke by phone on Monday, just hours before U.S. tariffs on Mexico, China and Canada were set to take effect.

The two counties will use the month-long pause to engage in further negotiations, Trump said.

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    18 hours ago

    I don’t see how this is a loss for trump. He got Mexico to do something he presumably wanted.

    Businesses like predictability. Even if something is going to be expensive in the future, businesses are okay with that as long as they know its coming and can plan/make changes. What trump did was the exact opposite. He introduce uncertain and has lost trust with the largest businesses in the world.

    Some of his biggest supporters and enablers and big business. He just dropped his pants and took a shit in their backyard with this.

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      35·
      18 hours ago

      No business is ok with arbitrarily paying more, even if it is predictable. That’s why they built factories in Mexico in the first place, because it was cheaper. Businesses also aren’t a monolith in their preferences, Amazon would happily take 4 years of chaos if it forces many competitors out of business. Similarly musk/Tesla isn’t ready to compete with other car companies (US, EU, or China) actually trying to make EVs, more chaos on his competition is great for him.

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        18 hours ago

        No business is ok with arbitrarily paying more, even if it is predictable. That’s why they built factories in Mexico in the first place, because it was cheaper.

        You stopped reading mid sentence apparently. The rest of my sentence in my post was “businesses are okay with that as long as they know its coming and can plan/make changes.” Those changes could be moving manufacturing, scaling different product lines, finding substitutions for what those forecasted more-expensive inputs are, etc. The factories in Mexico a response to a predictable rising labor market in the USA. So yes, manufacturers were okay with paying higher costs in the USA temporarily while the Mexican factories were set up or expanded.

        Businesses also aren’t a monolith in their preferences,

        True, but they largely follow the same trends. Outliers are outliers by definition.

        Amazon would happily take 4 years of chaos if it forces many competitors out of business.

        If its a sure thing, probably, but with Musk as President Amazon is just as likely to be hurt by the next 4 years. Musk is no fan of Bezos and Musk has a history of taking personal grudges into business dealings. (see Musk suing his own twitter advertising customers)

        Similarly musk/Tesla isn’t ready to compete with other car companies (US, EU, or China) actually trying to make EVs, more chaos on his competition is great for him.

        Musk has poisoned the previous good name of Tesla among its customers. Tesla opponents weren’t buying Tesla before, and now former Tesla proponents aren’t either. He’s pissing off the countries governments where he is trying to make inroads, and now handling the reigns of government pissing off future possible customers. There is nothing Musk is doing right now that is helping Tesla. He is only hurting them.

          • BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            12·
            6 hours ago

            Did you read the rest of Ryathal’s comments? Trump’s playing and winning 5D chess again, according to this dingus.

            And what’s your point leaping into action like this?

            • stephen01king@lemmy.zipEnglish
              1·
              4 hours ago

              No, he said Trump is succeeding in getting a reaction that he can use to rile up his stupid followers, not because actually he won 5d chess, but because his followers don’t live in reality and imagines him winning 5D chess. What part of that simple explanation are you stupid enough to misunderstand as him sucking off Trump?

              And what’s my point? How about my point is not attacking the messenger simply for delivering a message that you don’t like or agree with? Simply saying that Trump can use this to his advantage because his supporters are stupid is not the same as saying Trump is playing 5D chess.

              Stop making things worse by bringing the fight to non-Trump supporters. Don’t you guys have enough problems already? Go do something about Trump’s fascist actions instead of doing stupid stuff like this.