Mexican President cancels meeting with Trump after wall order

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Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announced Thursday that he'd canceled a meeting with President Trump planned for next week, following the new commander-in-chief's signing of a controversial executive order to jump start construction on his promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

"This morning we informed the White House that we would not attend the business meeting scheduled for next Tuesday with @POTUS," Peña Nieto tweeted in Spanish, from his official account.

"Mexico reiterates its willingness to work with the United States to achieve agreements in favor of both Nations," he added.

The announcement comes a day after Trump moved ahead with an order designed to make it clear that he was serious about building his oft-promised border wall and hours after he took to his own Twitter to harass Mexican officials about paying for it - another vow of the new President.
 
他不取消访问他还是男人么。:D

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遇到这样的邻居,你有啥办法?
 
墨西哥是他的第一个攻击目标,下一个会是中国吗?加拿大会在他的名单上吗?
 
墨西哥是他的第一个攻击目标,下一个会是中国吗?加拿大会在他的名单上吗?
好像计划中也要建一个美加边界的墙,3 Billion Dollars.
 
已经有人给他上过小学数学课了,这样算下来,还是美国自己埋单。
 
已经有人给他上过小学数学课了,这样算下来,还是美国自己埋单。

呵,那关税谁掏钱。另外,要收关税须先废了NAFTA。

Mexico condemns Trump's border wall tax proposal
  • 42 minutes ago
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38766662

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Some fencing already exists on the 2,000-mile (3,200km) US boundary with Mexico
Mexico has condemned a US suggestion that it may impose a 20% tax on Mexican imports to pay for President Donald Trump's planned border wall.

Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray said such tax would make Mexican imports more expensive for US consumers and they would end up paying for the wall.

The Mexican president earlier cancelled a visit to the US amid the row of who would pay for the barrier.

The planned wall was one of Mr Trump's key election campaign pledges.

Earlier this week, the president signed an executive order to create a wall along the 2,000-mile (3,200km) US-Mexico border.

Speaking on Thursday, Mr Videgaray said: "A tax on Mexican imports to the United States is not a way to make Mexico pay for the wall, but to a way make the North American consumer pay for it through more expensive avocados, washing machines, televisions.''

He also stressed that paying for Mr Trump's wall "is not negotiable" for Mexico.

Earlier on Thursday, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said a 20% tax could generate approximately $10bn (£8bn) in tax revenue per year.

"Right now our country's policy is to tax exports and let imports flow freely in, which is ridiculous", he said, adding that the tax will "easily pay for the wall".

But Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, later said that the border tax is only one of several options being considered.


Avocado anxiety over Trump's border tax

Media captionAvocado anxiety over Trump's border tax
Border tax unacceptable - Will Grant, BBC News, Mexico City
President Enrique Pena Nieto would have been perceived as very weak if he had travelled to Washington for talks and for many here it would have been tantamount to accepting Mr Trump's central claim - that Mexico will pay for the US border wall.

If that is not up front, then it may come eventually - perhaps under the latest proposal being floated by Donald Trump's White House, a massive 20% border tax on Mexican imports.

As Mexico exports some $300bn of goods a year to the US, the impact of such a proposal would be felt across the country.

Furthermore, the idea of funding a wall through a new tariff is simply unacceptable to most ordinary Mexicans who view the wall as unnecessary, inhumane, expensive and ineffective.

As their elected leader, at least for the next 18 months, Enrique Pena Nieto was left with little option but to deliver that message to the White House - by not going there in person.

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Image caption Trump and Pena Nieto met in Mexico before the US presidential elections
The rift between the neighbours and trade partners has deepened just days into Mr Trump's presidency.

After Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto pulled out of next week's summit, Mr Trump said the meeting would have been "fruitless" if Mexico didn't treat the US "with respect" and pay for the wall.

Earlier Mr Pena Nieto said he "lamented" the plans for the barrier.

In a televised address, the Mexican leader told the nation: "I've said time and again: Mexico won't pay for any wall."

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham warned that US consumers may wind up bearing the cost of the proposed tax.

"Any tariff we can levy they can levy. Huge barrier to econ growth", he wrote online.

"Build that wall" was one of Mr Trump's campaign rally slogans.

Mr Trump's executive orders also called for hiring 10,000 immigration officials to help boost border patrol efforts.

"A nation without borders is not a nation," Mr Trump said. "Beginning today the United States gets back control of its borders."
 
A nation without borders is not a nation
我家门是上锁的。虽然没什么小偷,但是,西方的基础就是我的就是我的。你进来必须我同意,否则firework伺候。美国的宪法基础。
 
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