Bessent Calls on Canada to Match Mexico’s Pitch on China Tariffs

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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Mexico has proposed matching Washington’s tariffs on China and urged Canada to do the same, signaling a potential path to avert levies on their own exports in the coming days.

“I do think one very interesting proposal that the Mexican government has made is perhaps matching the US on our China tariffs,” Bessent said on Bloomberg Television’s Wall Street Week with David Westin.

“I think it would be a nice gesture if the Canadians did it also, so in a way we could have ‘Fortress North America’ from the flood of Chinese imports,” he said.

Bloomberg reported earlier, citing people familiar with the matter, that Mexican officials were ...
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