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BumRushDaShow

(146,207 posts)
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 05:20 PM Sunday

Colombia threatens retaliation after Trump vows tariffs over refusal to accept deportation planes

Last edited Sun Jan 26, 2025, 05:52 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: CBC/Reuters

Posted: Jan 26, 2025 2:05 PM EST | Last Updated: 16 minutes ago


U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he would impose sweeping retaliatory measures on Colombia, including tariffs, sanctions and travel bans, after the South American country turned away two U.S. military aircraft with migrants being deported as part of Trump's immigration crackdown.

Colombia, the third-largest trading partner of the U.S. in Latin America, swiftly responded, threatening a 50 per cent tariff on U.S. goods.

Trump's punitive action appeared aimed at making an example of Colombia, the second case of a Latin American nation refusing U.S. military deportation flights. It also showed a renewed willingness to use the might of the United States to force other countries to bend to his will.

Trump wrote on the social media site Truth Social that the refusal by Colombian President Gustavo Petro to accept the flights jeopardized U.S. national security.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-colombia-migrant-repatriation-flights-1.7442038



AP all over the place with their article. Changing source.

Original article/headline/link -

Colombian president orders increase of import tariffs on US goods in retaliation to Trump order

Updated 5:07 PM EST, January 26, 2025


BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Sunday ordered an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods in retaliation to a similar order announced hours earlier by President Donald Trump.

The tariffs fight follows Petro’s decision to reject two U.S. military flights carrying migrants to Colombia. Trump, in a social media post, said the rejection “jeopardized” national security in the U.S.

Petro in a post on X said he had ordered Colombia’s “foreign trade minister to raise import tariffs from the U.S. by 25%.”

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.

https://apnews.com/article/colombia-immigration-deportation-flights-petro-trump-us-67870e41556c5d8791d22ec6767049fd
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LiberalArkie

(16,999 posts)
5. Trump explained that he ordered "25% tariffs on all goods coming into the United States," which would be raised to 50% i
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 05:27 PM
Sunday

In a weeks time

Rcanouse

(4 posts)
6. What are the requirements?
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 05:53 PM
Sunday

What are the requirements, if any, for Trump to impose tariffs?

Does it require any action from Congress?

LiberalArkie

(16,999 posts)
7. Here
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 05:56 PM
Sunday

The authority to impose tariffs lies with:

Congress: The U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to lay and collect taxes, including tariffs.
Executive Branch: In special circumstances, such as economic emergencies or national security issues, the executive branch can also impose tariffs without congressional approval.

Rcanouse

(4 posts)
8. Special circumstances
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 06:03 PM
Sunday

I'm afraid to ask who has final say on determining if something is a special circumstance?

IrishBubbaLiberal

(140 posts)
9. Barrons: Columbia imposes 25% tariffs on US imports
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 06:03 PM
Sunday
https://www.barrons.com/news/colombia-imposes-25-tariffs-on-us-imports-after-trump-sanctions-president-6fd604da

Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Sunday announced 25% tariffs on US imports, in a tit-for-tat move after US President Donald Trump hiked taxes on Colombian goods and sanctioned the country's leaders after Petro refused to accept migrant deportation flights.

Writing on X, Petro initially said he would impose 50% tariffs on US goods, but later deleted the post and announced that he had instructed his minister for external trade "to raise tariffs on imports from the US to 25%."

EX500rider

(11,692 posts)
14. Probably not a good move on Colombia's part, bound to hurt them way more
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 07:30 PM
Sunday

In 2021, 0.9% of US exports went to Colombia, and 0.5% of US imports came from Colombia.

Meanwhile 27% of Colombian exports go to the US.

iemanja

(55,306 posts)
16. The prices of flowers and coffee are about to get a lot higher
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 10:16 PM
Sunday

and Americans have little tolerance for economic discomfort. I say good for them. They don't need to kowtow to a bully like Trump. No one should.

Putin metaphorically laughed in Trump's face when Trump threatened tariffs on Russia.

EX500rider

(11,692 posts)
17. The "good for them" would hurt Colombia WAY more then the US, that is not their Presidents job
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 10:53 AM
Monday

Buddyzbuddy

(254 posts)
10. Thanks to Diaper Don, breakfast is going to start
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 06:06 PM
Sunday

taking bigger bites of our budgets. While at the same time cutting funds of the neediest of our society. But he'll blame it on immigration and the idiots will believe him.

LiberalArkie

(16,999 posts)
12. Nah, it is Obamas and Biden's fault for not ordering the military to shoot everyone crossing on sight.
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 06:16 PM
Sunday

FBaggins

(27,922 posts)
13. May have been so much bluster
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 07:24 PM
Sunday

Petro appears now to be saying that the concern was the undignified manner of the return (on military flights). He’s offering his presidential plane as the means of transport

Richard D

(9,518 posts)
15. Gustavo Petro's full message to trump
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 10:10 PM
Sunday

English translation below.

Trump, a mi no me gusta mucho viajar a los EEUU, es un poco aburridor, pero confieso que hay cosas meritorias, me gusta ir a los barrios negros de Washington, allí ví una lucha entera en la capital de los EEUU entre negros y latinos con barricadas, que me pareció una pendejada, porque deberían unirse.

Confieso que me gusta Walt Withman y Paul Simon y Noam Chomsky y Miller

Confieso que Sacco y Vanzetti, que tienen mi sangre, en la historia de los EEUU, son memorables y les sigo. Los asesinaron por lideres obreros con la silla eléctrica, los fascistas qué están dentro de EEUU como dentro de mi país

No me gusta su petroleo, Trump, va a acabar con la especie humana por la codicia. Quizás algún día, junto a un trago de Whisky qué acepto, a pesar de mi gastritis, podamos hablar francamente de esto, pero es difícil porque usted me considera una raza inferior y no lo soy, ni ningún colombiano.

Así que si conoce alguien terco, ese soy yo, punto. Puede con su fuerza económica y su soberbia intentar dar un golpe de estado como hicieron con Allende. Pero yo muero en mi ley, resistí la tortura y lo resisto a usted. No quiero esclavistas al lado de Colombia, ya tuvimos muchos y nos liberamos. Lo que quiero al lado de Colombia, son amantes de la libertad. Si usted no puede acompañarme yo voy a otros lados. Colombía es el corazón del mundo y usted no lo entendió, esta es la tierra de las mariposas amarillas, de la belleza de Remedios, pero tambien de los coroneles Aurelianos Buendía, de los cuales soy uno de ellos, quizás el último

Me matarás, pero sobreviviré en mi pueblo que es antes del tuyo, en las Américas. Somos pueblos de los vientos, las montañas, del mar Caribe y de la libertad

A usted no le gusta nuestra libertad, vale. Yo no estrecho mi mano con esclavistas blancos. Estrecho las manos de los blancos libertarios herederos de Lincoln y de los muchachos campesinos negros y blancos de los EEUU, ante cuyas tumbas llore y recé en un campo de batalla, al que llegue, después de caminar montañas de la toscana italiana y después de salvarme del covid.

Ellos son EEUU y ante ellos me arrodillo, ante más nadie.

Túmbeme presidente y le responderán las Américas y la humanidad.

Colombia ahora deja de mirar el norte, mira al mundo, nuestra sangre viene de la sangre del califato de Córdoba, la civilización en ese entonces, de los latinos romanos del mediterraneo, la civilización de ese entonces, que fundaron la república, la democracia en Atenas; nuestra sangre tiene los resistentes negros convertidos en esclavos por ustedes. En Colombia está el primer territorio libre de América, antes de Washington, de toda la América, allí me cobijo en sus cantos africanos.

Mi tierra es de orfebrería existente en época de los faraones egipcios, y de los primeros artistas del mundo en Chiribiquete.

No nos dominarás nunca. Se opone el guerrero que cabalgaba nuestras tierras, gritando libertad y que se llama Bolívar

Nuestros pueblos son algo temerosos, algo tímidos, son ingenuos y amables, amantes, pero sabrán ganar el canal de Panamá, que ustedes nos quitaron con violencia. Doscientos héroes de toda latinoamerica yacen en Bocas del Toro, actual Panamá, antes Colombia, que ustedes asesinaron.

Yo levanto una bandera y como dijera Gaitán, así quede solo, seguirá enarbolada con la dignidad latinoamericana que es la dignidad de América, que su bisabuelo no conoció, y el mio sí, señor presidente inmigrante en los EEUU,

Su bloqueo no me asusta; porque Colombia además de ser el país de la belleza, es el corazón del mundo. Se que ama la belleza como yo, no la irrespete y le brindará su dulzura.

COLOMBIA A PARTiR DE HOY SE ABRE A TODO EL MUNDO, CON LOS BRAZOS ABIERTOS, SOMOS CONSTRUCTORES DE LIBERTAD, VIDA Y HUMANIDAD.

Me informan que usted pone a nuestro fruto del trabajo humano 50% de arancel para entrar a EEUU, yo hago lo mismo.

Que nuestra gente siembre maíz que se descubrió en Colombia y alimente al mundo.


In other words:

Trump, I don't really like traveling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess there are worthy things, I like going to the Black neighborhoods in Washington, there I saw an entire fight in the capital of the US between Black people and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should unite.

I confess I like Walt Whitman, Paul Simon, Noam Chomsky, and Miller.

I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in US history, and I follow them. They were murdered for being workers' leaders with the electric chair, the fascists that are inside the US, just like in my country.

I don't like their oil, Trump, it's going to end humanity because of greed. Maybe one day, along with a glass of whisky that I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk openly about this, but it's hard because you consider me an inferior race and I am not, nor is any Colombian.

So if you know someone stubborn, that's me, period. You can, with your economic power and arrogance, try to carry out a coup like you did with Allende. But I die in my law, I resisted torture, and I resist you. I don't want slave owners next to Colombia, we've had many, and we liberated ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world, and you didn't understand it, this is the land of yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of Colonel Aureliano Buendía, of whom I am one, perhaps the last.

You will kill me, but I will survive in my town, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are people of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea, and freedom.

You don't like our freedom, fine. I don't shake hands with white slave owners. I shake hands with the libertarian whites, heirs of Lincoln, and with the black and white rural boys from the US, before whose graves I cried and prayed in a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Tuscany and after saving myself from Covid.

They are the US, and before them, I kneel, before no one else.

Knock me down, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.

Colombia, now stop looking to the North, look to the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Córdoba, the civilization of that time, from the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic and democracy in Athens; our blood has the resistant blacks, who were turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all of America, there I shelter in its African songs.

My land is from goldsmithing that existed in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs, and from the first artists of the world in Chiribiquete.

You will never dominate us. The warrior who rode through our lands, shouting freedom, and whose name is Bolívar, opposes you.

Our peoples are somewhat fearful, somewhat shy, naive, and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all over Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, present-day Panama, which was once Colombia, and whom you murdered.

I raise a flag, and as Gaitán would say, even if I remain alone, it will still be raised with the Latin American dignity, which is the dignity of America, that your great-grandfather didn't know, and mine did, Mr. President, immigrant in the US.

Your blockade does not scare me; because Colombia, in addition to being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it, and it will offer you its sweetness.

COLOMBIA FROM NOW ON OPENS UP TO THE WHOLE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE, AND HUMANITY.

I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on our human labor fruit to enter the US, I will do the same.

Let our people plant corn, which was discovered in Colombia, and feed the world.

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