BIDEN CRITICIZES TRUMP’S THREAT TO LEVY 25% TAX AGAINST TOP SUPPLIERS OF GOODS TO THE U.S. SAYS IT’S “COUNTERPRODUCTIVE.”

Outgoing president of the United State, Joe Biden on Thursday said that President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement that he will implement 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico are “counterproductive.”
“I hope he rethinks it, and I think it’s a counterproductive thing to do,” Biden said, responding to a reporter’s question about his reaction.
“The last thing we need to do is begin to screw up those relationships,” he said during a Thanksgiving Day visit to a fire station in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
Trump said Monday on Truth Social that one of his first executive orders would be to hit Mexico and Canada with a blanket 25% tariff. Mexico and Canada are the second and third top suppliers of goods to the U.S., according to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. The U.S. imports the most goods from China.
“This Tariff will remain in effect until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!” Trump said in the post.
On Wednesday, the President-elect on Truth Social had revealed he had “wonderful conversation” with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, saying, “She has agreed to stop Migration through Mexico, and into the United States, effectively closing our Southern Border.”
However in Sheinbaum’s account of the conversation, she said she noted that Mexico’s position is “not to close borders, but to build bridges between the governments and the peoples.”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday on X that he had spoken with his country’s premiers about trade with the U.S.
“Our focus: Canadian jobs, securing the border, and building on our strong partnership with the United States,” he said.