The deal, announced on Friday after three days of negotiations in Washington, averted Trump's threatened imposition of 5% import tariffs on all Mexican goods starting on Monday. "Mexico will try very hard, and if they do that, this will be a very successful agreement between the United States and Mexico," Trump wrote in a tweet on Saturday morning. Mnuchin warned, however, that Trump retained the authority to impose tariffs if Mexico failed to enforce the new agreement. Under the deal, Mexico agreed to the immediate expansion along the entire border of a programme under which the United States returns asylum-seeking migrants to Mexico to await adjudication of their cases. Trump threatened to keep raising import duties on Mexican goods up to 25% unless Mexico acted to stem what he has called an "invasion."

Source: bd News24 June 08, 2019 21:00 UTC