Sunday was another moment in the early days of the Trump Administration, after a tariff fight emerged between the United States and Colombia. The dispute began when Colombian President Gustavo Petro refused to allow U.
If Trump had carried out the threat of tariffs, the prices of many goods imported from Colombia could have increased, including coffee, flowers and crude oil.
The Trump administration had added extra inspections for passengers from Colombia as part of a pressure campaign. The effects lingered into Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s threat to impose a 25% tax on imports from Colombia comes at a most inauspicious time: The wrangling over the South American country’s willingness to accept flights carrying deported immigrants is flaring up ...
Colombia has not recognized Maduro’s victory, but it also has not cut diplomatic relations with the country. Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli, the Andes director at the Washington Office on Latin America ...
Washington and Bogotá have for years had a bilateral agreement allowing for regular deportation flights that have, until now, gone to Colombia at the rate of at least twice a week without problems.
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House: Colombia agrees to accept deported migrants; US drops tariff threat but maintains other penalties for now.
Colombia is respected.” In a later Sunday post, he also announced that he instructed his foreign trade minister to raise tariffs on U.S. imports to 25% after Mr. Trump said he would do the same ...
By Cynthia Michelle Aranguren Hernández Colombia's President Gustavo Petro has mounted an unprecedented challenge to US President Donald Trump’s hawkish immigration policy, setting off a now-resolved diplomatic crisis whose fallout threatens to upend the longstanding alliance between the two nations.
A judge in Washington, D.C., sided with plaintiffs who claimed the White House’s freezing of billions of dollars in congressionally-approved funding violated the law.