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Posted on 07/31/2025 10:20:32 AM PDT by DFG
I have just concluded a telephone conversation with the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, which was very successful in that, more and more, we are getting to know and understand each other. The complexities of a Deal with Mexico are somewhat different than other Nations because of both the problems, and assets, of the Border. We have agreed to extend, for a 90 Day period, the exact same Deal as we had for the last short period of time, namely, that Mexico will continue to pay a 25% Fentanyl Tariff, 25% Tariff on Cars, and 50% Tariff on Steel, Aluminum, and Copper. Additionally, Mexico has agreed to immediately terminate its Non Tariff Trade Barriers, of which there were many. We will be talking to Mexico over the next 90 Days with the goal of signing a Trade Deal somewhere within the 90 Day period of time, or longer. Present at the meeting were Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, United States Trade Representative and Ambassador Jamieson Greer, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, and United States Homeland Security Advisor, Stephen Miller. There will be continued cooperation on the Border as it relates to all aspects of Security, including Drugs, Drug Distribution, and Illegal Immigration into the United States. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Its almost like Mexico is paying for our border wall.
“It was not a deal that President Donald Trump made with Ursula von der Leyen — it was Donald Trump eating Ursula von der Leyen for breakfast … the U.S. president is a heavyweight negotiator while Madame President is a featherweight.”
“Sheinbaum”? Thats an interesting spanish name
Fentanyl tariff?
Mexico will continue to pay a 25% Fentanyl Tariff
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How does that work? Is it based on the amounts found by the CC and the BP or just guess work?
It works however Donald Trump wants it to work - which changes whenever Trump wants it to change
If Mexico has at least a 25% tariff on ‘everything’, that could be President trolling our enemy to our South regarding the 25% Fentanyl tariff.
They solve that Fentanyl issue, that tariff may go away(?)
Jewish people have settled all over the world, probably as much or more than other ethnicities. They’ve been in Mexico since the 1500s.
Where is the written deal?
If they don't solve it, who then counts the quantity or weight to determine the tariff? If it can be counted, then it could be stopped... Is anyone thinking this through?
“a 25% Fentanyl Tariff”
Huh??? Is Fentanyl now a legal import that we are taxing? How does a “Fentanyl Tariff” work?
As have people of other nationalities since then including Germans, Irish, and French.
Like I said, this 25% Fentanyl tariff could be listed as ‘Fetanyl’ but means everything Mexico tries to peddle in the US has a flat 25% , at least, because of Fentanyl issue.
This is good, but I’d be more impressed if Sheinbaum had said “Your special forces are welcome to join us to eradicate the drug cartels and to send your B2 bombers in to level their compounds and palaces.
I worked with many blonde, upper middle class Mexican professionals with both Western European and Spanish roots. When I first heard Sheinbaum had been elected, I had the same thought as you.
Turns out that German surnames in Mexico often trace back to waves of immigration starting in the 19th century, when the Mexican government under Porfirio Díaz encouraged European settlers for economic development and cultural "whitening" (blanqueamiento). This included merchants, farmers, and industrialists from Germany, as well as later groups like Russian Mennonites fleeing Canada in the 1920s for religious freedom and German-Jewish refugees escaping Nazi persecution in the 1930s and 1940s. Many Germans settled in regions like Yucatán, Chiapas, Veracruz, Chihuahua, and Mexico City. Over time, some surnames were Hispanicized (e.g., "Bergmann" becoming "Beltrán" or "Burgos") due to assimilation, while others remained closer to their original forms, especially among insular communities like Mennonites.
Claudia Sheinbaum is the first woman and first Jewish Mexican president. The name is of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, rooted in Yiddish (a Germanic language), combining "sheyn" (beautiful) and "boym" (tree). Her paternal grandparents were Lithuanian Jews who immigrated to Mexico in the 1920s, while her maternal side includes Sephardic Jews from Bulgaria who arrived in the early 1940s to escape the Holocaust. Similar Jewish-German surnames in Mexico often stem from the same refugee wave and include compound names reflecting Yiddish/German roots.
Given the strong Spanish Catholic culture in Mexico, I was really surprised they elected a Jewish woman.
bttt
As it should be - when tariffs become an instrument of foreign policy conducted by the President.
I believe it is an additional tariff on everything that will go away if Mexico stops exporting fentanyl to the USA. In other words, it’s not a levy on the product being exported, as with the steel tariff, or the auto tariff - but instead it’s levied on everything as a punishment for fentanyl and human trafficking.
At least that’s my understanding.
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