Trump imposes tariffs, sanctions on Colombia after it refuses deportation flights
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President Donald Trump imposed tariffs and sanctions on Colombia hours after its leftist president refused to allow two military planes carrying deported migrants to land, punishing a US ally for stepping even partially out of line with his immigrants.
In a social media post Sunday, Trump said he ordered an emergency 25% tariff on all Colombian goods coming into the US, which will be raised to 50% in a week. Oil, gold, coffee and flowers top the list of exports, according to Colombia’s tax authorities.
Trump’s action upended decades of warm relations between the two countries and may be devastating to the Andean nation’s fragile economy. Relations between Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro had been widely expected to be strained, though the deterioration was swifter and more damaging than almost anyone anticipated.
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