{"id":2694,"date":"2025-07-13T05:45:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T05:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2025-07-13T05:45:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T05:45:51","slug":"trump-slaps-30-tariffs-on-mexico-and-the-european-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/13\/trump-slaps-30-tariffs-on-mexico-and-the-european-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Slaps 30% Tariffs on Mexico and the European Union"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Trump has announced 30% tariffs on Mexico and the European Union, scheduled to take effect on the 1st of August, 2025. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"527\" src=\"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-15-1024x527.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-15-1024x527.png 1024w, https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-15-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-15-768x396.png 768w, https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-15-1536x791.png 1536w, https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-15.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mexico in orange, European Union in green.  Source:<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexico%E2%80%93European_Union_relations#\/media\/File:European_Union_Mexico_Locator.svg\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> <br>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-announcement-tariffs-mexico-european-union\/\">CBS<\/a>:  <strong>&#8220;President Trump on Saturday [July 12] announced he is levying 30% tariffs against Mexico and the European Union. They are set to begin on Aug. 1.  He announced the tariffs on two of the United States&#8217; biggest trade partners in letters posted on this Truth Social account.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mexican government knew about it the day before:  <strong>&#8220;The Mexican economy and foreign ministries, in a joint statement on Saturday, said they had been informed of the new tariffs during a meeting in Washington, D.C. on Friday [July 11].&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114840265771030416\">Trump&#8217;s letter addressed to Mexican President Sheinbaum<\/a>, dated July 11th, the U.S. President said that <strong>&#8220;Starting August 1, 2025, we will charge Mexico a Tariff of 30% on Mexican products sent into the United States, separate from all Sectoral Tariffs.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump has announced 30% tariffs on Mexico and the European Union, scheduled to take effect on the 1st of August, 2025. From CBS: &#8220;President Trump on Saturday [July 12] announced he is levying 30% tariffs against Mexico and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/13\/trump-slaps-30-tariffs-on-mexico-and-the-european-union\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[381,282],"tags":[27,54,361],"class_list":["post-2694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-foreign-policy","tag-claudia-sheinbaum","tag-donald-trump","tag-tariffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2696,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions\/2696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}