Trump to slap 30% tariffs on Mexico, EU beginning Aug. 1
"Mexico has been helping me secure the border. BUT, what Mexico has done, is not enough," Trump wrote in a letter to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. "Our relationship has been, unfortunately, far from Reciprocal," he wrote in a separate letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
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