Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum revealed that Donald Trump agreed to take action to stop the flow of guns from the United States into Mexico as part of their deal to delay tariffs temporarily.
Last week, Trump announced he is imposing 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada, and 10% tariffs on goods imported from China.
In response, Sheinbaum threatened retaliatory tariffs on goods imported from the United States, but had not disclosed the rate for the tariffs.
On Monday, Trump announced that he is pausing his new 25% tariffs on goods imported from Mexico for 30 days after Sheinbaum agreed to immediately send 10,000 soldiers to the U.S. border to prevent drug trafficking from Mexico.
However, Trump failed to mention that in exchange he agreed to take steps to stop the flow of guns across the border into Mexico. That was revealed Sheinbaum.
“We had a good conversation with President Trump with great respect for our relationship and sovereignty; we reached a series of agreements,” Sheinbaum wrote in the tweet, according to a translation from Spanish.
“The United States is committed to working to prevent the trafficking of high-powered weapons to Mexico,” she added.
According to NPR, the Mexican Attorney General of the Republic and the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) made an effort to trace the origin and number of firearms in Mexico coming from or through the United States.
Mexico’s Secretariat of Foreign Relations found that between 70—90% of traced firearms originated from and passed through the U.S. The ATF and U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimated the number to be around 68%.
