The United States will delay tariffs it issued on Mexico by one month, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum announced on Monday.
Sheinbaum said Mexico and the U.S. came to a series of agreements following talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, who confirmed the delay on social media platform Truth Social.
Mexico will send 10,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to aid in the prevention of drug trafficking between the two countries, per the two leaders. Meanwhile, the U.S. will work to stop the trafficking of high-powered weapons to Mexico, Sheinbaum said.
“Our teams will begin working today on two fronts: security and trade,” Sheinbaum said in Spanish in a post on social media platform X.
Over the next month, U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, will conduct negotiations with representatives from Mexico’s government to reach a deal between the two countries, Trump said Monday.
The news comes after Trump over the weekend announced a plan to implement 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico beginning Feb. 4.
Mexico has been preparing for this moment for months, according to Sheinbaum.
The country tried to stave off tariffs by strengthening its coordination with the U.S. on key topics, including migration, Sheinbaum said in a news briefing Friday. Mexico's officials have also attempted to persuade U.S. leaders to see trade deficits differently, arguing the two countries are complementary trade partners, not competitors.
And, prior to Trump’s decision to issue tariffs, she said Mexico's officials had prepared several plans for how it would respond to the U.S.
Sheinbaum alluded to those plans in her direct response to Trump's tariffs announcements on Saturday in a post on X. She instructed Mexico's Economy Secretary Marcelo Ebrard to implement "Plan B,” which included both tariff and non-tariff actions.
"If the United States wants to combat the organized crime that traffics drugs and generates violence, we must work together in an integrated way," Sheinbaum said in Spanish in the post. "But always with respect for shared responsibility, mutual trust, collaboration and, above all, respect for sovereignty, which is not negotiable. Coordination, yes; subordination, no."
Although tariffs on Mexico have been delayed, the U.S. will begin enforcing new duties on Canada and China Tuesday. Canada was the first of the three countries to officially respond, levying retaliatory tariffs on $155 billion worth of U.S. goods, with some also effective Tuesday.
