Mexican president optimistic Trump will reverse tariff plan

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Mexican president optimistic Trump will reverse tariff plan
Patrick J. McDonnell, Tracy Wilkinson

Mexican president optimistic Trump will reverse tariff plan

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Saturday that he expected “good results” from high-level talks scheduled in Washington next week aimed at dissuading President Trump from imposing punitive tariffs on all Mexican goods exported to the United States.

“There is an atmosphere favorable to dialogue in our country as well as in the United States,” Lopez Obrador said at a news conference in the gulf state of Veracruz.

The Mexican president, who took office Dec. 1, is facing his first international crisis following Trump’s announcement on Thursday that Washington would impose escalating tariffs starting at 5% on all Mexican imports until Mexico moved to shut down U.S.-bound migration — mostly of Central Americans traversing Mexican territory en route to the border.

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