In a post on Truth Social, Trump justified the 30% tariff on Mexico by citing the country’s failure to completely stem drug trafficking across the border.

Her government has been unable to defuse the threat of stinging U.S. tariffs, in large part because of the White House’s focus on whether Mexico can take on the entrenched cartels feeding fentanyl and...

Mexican officials warned that the import tax would cause food shortages in the United States and called it a “strategic mistake.”