Trump Imposes Tariffs on Canada and Mexico to Combat Drug Trafficking

President Trump invokes emergency powers to impose tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, citing their failure to curb drug trafficking and lethal drugs like fentanyl flowing into the U.S., which he deems a national security threat causing overwhelming crime and overdose deaths.

• President Trump is implementing tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to combat drug trafficking and the influx of lethal drugs like fentanyl into the U.S.
• Both Canada and Mexico have failed to adequately address the dangerous cartel activity and flow of contraband drugs, posing an extraordinary threat to U.S. national security and public health.
• The sustained influx of illegal aliens and drugs across U.S. borders has profound consequences, overwhelming resources and causing crime, and more Americans are dying from fentanyl overdoses each year than the number of lives lost in the Vietnam War.