The US and Mexico have reached an agreement to stave off tariffs on Mexican goods, officials confirmed on Friday night. “Thanks to the support of all Mexicans, the imposition of tariffs on Mexican products exported to the USA has been avoided,” the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, tweeted. At a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Fukuoka, Japan, the treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, said Trump retained the authority to impose tariffs. Under the new deal, returned asylum seekers will spend long periods in cities such as Reynosa, on the Texas border. Mexico could tighten migration controls to defuse Trump tariffs threat Read moreAt home, Trump had faced bipartisan opposition toward his tariff plan.

Source: The Guardian June 08, 2019 00:45 UTC