How Trump forced Colombia to accept the exile by threatening the American tariff war, Donald Trump News
The United States and Colombia withdrew from a trade war on Sunday, publicly after a hot exchange between their leaders.
Colombia refused to accept two American military aircraft with a Colombian citizens who are exiled from the US, Washington threatened tariffs and restrictions on Bogota. America is the largest business partner in Colombia.
US President Donald Trump and Colombian counterpart Gustavo Petro traded online Barbes on Sunday, Columbia eventually agreed to claim exile and America. What happened here – and what was at stake for Washington and Bogota.
What was Trump’s line with Colombia?
Colombian President Petro refused to take two American military aircraft to the land of exiled Colombian migrants, amidst Trump’s explosion in the US.
He accused Trump of not treating migrants deported with dignity or honor. Petro stopped his hands and feet, showing a video on X at an airport in Brazil. “I cannot allow migrants to live in a country that does not want them; But if that country sends them back, it should be for them and with respect and respect for our country, ”he wrote.
According to a report by the US Department of Homeland Security, in 2022, there were estimated 240,000 unauthorized Colombian migrants in the US.
Petro offered to send a presidential aircraft to facilitate the return of the migrants, arguing that the US was more distinguished than sending them back.
Trump hit back, accusing Petro of threatening US security.
Threatening tariffs and restrictions, Trump wrote on his true social stage on Sunday: “These measures are just the beginning. We will not allow the Colombian government to violate our legal obligations regarding the acceptance and withdrawal of forced criminals in the United States! ,
US State Secretary Marco Rubio also said on Sunday that he was authorizing visa sanctions on the colombian authorities and their families “who were responsible for the intervention of American Reporation Flight Operations”.
What was Trump’s tariff danger?
As the back and forth continued, Trump increased his dangers, ordered 25 percent tariff on all columbians coming to the US. These tariffs, he warned, then increased by 50 percent in the next week.
In addition, Trump said that he would implement “visa ban” and “travel restrictions and immediate visa revives” on government officials and supporters, tightening the boundary inspections of all Colombian citizens and cargo.
What was Colombia’s reaction?
In retaliation for Trump’s dangers, Petro also threatened to impose 25 percent tariff on American goods.
The Colombian President posted a series of defense messages on X on Sunday, responding to Trump’s dangers.
“Your blockade doesn’t scare me, because Colombia is the heart of the world, apart from being a country of beauty,” he wrote in one of them.
Petro wrote on X, “America cannot consider Colombian migrants as criminals,” also indicates that “15,660 Americans are irregularly settled in Colombia”.
The late row was resolved on Sunday. Colombian Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo told a news conference that the authorities “had removed the deadlock” and would accept the exiled citizens from the US. He said: “Colombia government … Hai, the President aircraft has been designed to facilitate the withdrawal of Colombians who were going to come to the country on exile this morning.”
Columbia’s statement additionally stated that Murillo and Columbia Ambassador to the US will travel to Washington to continue diplomatic dialogue and reduce tension in the coming days.
The White House resonated in a statement in a statement that Columbia agreed to all the conditions of Trump, “with the unrestricted approval of all illegal aliens from Columbia, returning from the United States, including American military aircraft, without any limit or delay Of”.
What does America import from Colombia?
Both sides would have been hurt that the tariff war had moved forward.
According to US census data, between January and November 2024, the US imported goods worth $ 16BN from Columbia.
The US received its greatest supply of cut flowers from Colombia, which, according to 2022 data from the Economic Complexity (OEC) observatory, imports about two-thirds, or 66 percent of its cut flowers from the country. Valentine’s Day, coming on 14 February, would have pinned Americans and was kicked in more tariffs.
The US is also a source of sources from more than 20 percent of its imported coffee from Colombia – only modest behind Brazil, the largest supplier of coffee for America.
The US also imports raw petroleum, gold, aluminum structures, bananas, and coffee and tea extracts from Colombia – but in very small amounts.
Colombia is one of the rare groups of countries that have a trade deficit with Washington. In other words, the US exports more to Colombia than importing from the South American nation.
How will Colombia be a business war with US?
While a trade war would have created specific items – such as flowers and coffee – expensive for American consumers, it was a great implication for Colombia’s economy, which affected both its exports and imports.
“These measures will be important political and economic implications,” told Al Jazeera by Victor Munoz, a visiting Fellow in the European Council on the German Council, on the European Council.
“For Colombia, such tasks can cause loss of thousands of jobs, especially in areas such as oil and gas, gold, coffee and flowers,” they explained.
According to OEC data since 2022, the US is the largest trading partner with Columbia in terms of both imports and exports. A quarter exports in Colombia go to the US, and have 26.4 percent of the total import of Colombia in imports from the US.
“Colombia has been working for decades to expand its commercial partnership and diversify its international relations. However, Colombia hopes that he immediately replaces export sites for his products and services or the scale of American investments is unrealistic, ”said Munoz.
According to US census data, between January and November 2024, Colombia imported $ 17BN goods from the US.
The US sent a petroleum products of about $ 2.5 billion to Colombia in 2023, leading to the US’s most valuable export to Colombia to petroleum products. The next most valuable export was at $ 1.2bn in 2023, and chemicals, at $ 1bn in the same year.
Colombia also imports soybean food and aircraft from the US with other things.
Munose said, “Tariffs can also trigger the devaluation of Colombian pesos, increasing inflation pressure due to increase in economic risks and increasing cost of imported goods and raw materials,” Munoz said.
“Such measures will undoubtedly create adequate economic and social impacts in affected countries like Colombia.”
What are exile flights and are they new?
A exile flight is a flight that sends unauthorized migrants to their original country. However, this is the first time American military aircraft are being used to deport immigrants, according to an anonymous American official, Egnes France-Press reported.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, exile is not new, and the US began to start immigrants in early 1892, when 2,801 migrants were removed. However, the number began in the 1990s.
When the Democratic US President Joe Biden took over in 2021, he promised to stop exile, but he extended them, recently deported most immigrants in almost a decade – more than 271,000 in the last financial year.
Between 2021 and 2024, the US expelled 28,635 Colombian citizens, according to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) website. About half of these were in the financial year of 2024.
But Trump elected 2024 on the allegations that the Biden administration allowed the “crowd” of unspecified immigrants to enter the country, as well as making unbalanced claims, suggesting that the country was sending violent criminals to the US.
He promised that he would “do the biggest exile operation in history”.
Meanwhile, Trump has also clarified that he intends to use tariffs as a weapon. He has threatened the tough tariffs targeting countries including China, Mexico and Canada.
