Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum speaks at the National Palace in Mexico City. AFP
There was "no reason or justification" for Trump to hit Mexico with 25 percent tariffs despite its collaboration in efforts to tackle drug smuggling, she said at her morning news conference.
"I want to make it clear today that we will always seek a negotiated solution as we have proposed within the framework of respect for our sovereignty," Sheinbaum said.
"But the unilateral decision taken by the United States affects national and foreign companies that operate in our country and affects our people. Therefore, we have decided to respond with tariff and non-tariff measures," she said, adding that details would be announced later.
Sheinbaum accused Washington of publishing "an offensive, defamatory and unsupported statement," after the White House alleged in its tariff announcement that the Mexican government had "afforded safe havens for the cartels."
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