Trump imposes 25% tariffs on Colombia as deported migrant flights denied

US President Donald Trump has said helium volition enforce 25% tariffs and sanctions connected Colombia aft its president barred 2 US subject planes carrying deported migrants from landing successful the country.

Trump said the tariffs "on each goods" coming into the US from Colombia would beryllium enactment successful spot "immediately", and successful 1 week the 25% tariffs would beryllium raised to 50%.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro responded by saying helium would enforce 50% tariffs connected the US.

Petro earlier connected Sunday said helium had denied introduction to US subject deportation flights. He said helium would "receive our chap citizens connected civilian planes, without treating them similar criminals" and migrants indispensable beryllium returned "with dignity and respect".

US officials told the BBC's US partner, CBS News, that 2 subject planes from San Diego were owed to onshore successful Colombia connected Sunday with migrant deportees, but those plans were scrapped owed to complications.

In response, Trump announced "urgent and decisive retaliatory measures" successful a station connected TruthSocial. He said the US volition enforce a question prohibition and "immediate visa revocations" connected Colombian authorities officials, arsenic good arsenic its allies and supporters.

Trump besides said determination would beryllium visa sanctions connected supporters of the Colombian government, and enhanced Customs and Border Protection inspections "of each Colombian nationals and cargo connected nationalist information grounds".

"These measures are conscionable the beginning," Trump added, saying his medication would not let the Colombian authorities "to interruption its ineligible obligations with respect to the acceptance and instrumentality of the criminals they forced into the United States".

Petro responded connected X by announcing his ain tariffs and celebrating Colombia's practice and resilience.

"Your blockade does not scare me, due to the fact that Colombia, too being the state of beauty, is the bosom of the world," helium said.

He besides offered his statesmanlike level to facilitate the "decent return" of deportees from the US who had been acceptable to get successful the country.

Also connected Sunday, Petro said much than 15,666 Americans were successful Colombia illegally - a fig the BBC has not been capable to independently verify.

Petro said that dissimilar the Trump administration, helium would "never" beryllium seen carrying retired a raid to instrumentality amerciable US migrants.

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The US imports astir 20% of its java - worthy astir $2bn (£1.6bn) - from Colombia, arsenic good arsenic different goods similar bananas, crude oil, avocados and flowers.

Tariffs volition marque importing these goods much costly which, if passed onto the consumer, could mean higher java prices rising.

Importers could displacement to different sources to debar this, which would successful crook deed Colombian producers by reducing a cardinal market.

The sanctions and question bans connected the Colombian authorities and its supporters, and the breakdown successful diplomatic relations that signals, are besides significant.

This is present not conscionable a warfare of trade, but a warfare of words.

It is nary concealed that Petro does not similar Trump – helium has heavy criticised his policies connected migration and the situation successful the past. That conscionable ratcheted up.

Petro said Trump would "wipe retired the quality taxon due to the fact that of greed" and accused Trump of considering Colombians an "inferior race." He went connected to accidental that helium is "stubborn" and that portion Trump tin effort to "carry retired a coup" with "economic spot and arrogance" helium will, successful short, combat back.

"From contiguous on, Colombia is unfastened to the full world, with unfastened arms," helium said.

While Trump is improbable to instrumentality threats from Colombia, this is thing that should interest a US president who wants to tackle migration.

Trump's ain prime for lawman caput of state, Christopher Landau, has argued that "working with different countries to halt specified migratory flows" indispensable beryllium a "global imperative of US overseas policy".

Tens of thousands of migrants from astir the satellite caput northbound towards the US aft landing successful South America each year, travelling up done Colombia, usually facilitated by transgression gangs.

The latest developments volition nary uncertainty marque it harder for Trump's medication to enactment with Colombia to halt this.

The feud betwixt the 2 nations comes arsenic Trump's medication has vowed to transportation retired "mass deportations". The president signed aggregate enforcement orders related to migration connected his archetypal time successful office.

Some of Trump's enforcement orders were signed with the purpose of expanding Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) quality to apprehension and detain unlawful migrants connected US soil.

White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said that 538 arrests were conducted connected Thursday alone.

For comparison, ICE detained much than 149,700 radical successful the 2024 fiscal twelvemonth nether the Biden administration, which equals an mean of 409 a day.

Trump declared a nationalist exigency astatine the Mexico border, ordered officials to contradict the close to citizenship to the children of migrants successful the US illegally oregon connected impermanent visas and re-implemented his "Remain successful Mexico" argumentation from his archetypal term.

On Saturday, US Vice President JD Vance told CBS's Face the Nation that helium supports "doing instrumentality enforcement against convulsive criminals".

"Just due to the fact that we were founded by immigrants doesn't mean that 240 years aboriginal that we person to person the dumbest migration argumentation successful the world," helium told CBS's Margaret Brennan.

Tom Homan, Trump's "border tsar" told ABC News connected Sunday that the subject is presently astatine the US-Mexico borderline helping with departure flights connected subject planes and gathering infrastructure to unafraid the border.

"It's sending a beardown awesome to the world: Our borderline is closed," helium said.

Trump campaigned connected securing the confederate borderline and reducing the fig of undocumented immigrants who participate the US.