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Mexico’s president responds to Trump’s plan to start 'External Revenue Service' office

President Donald Trump at the White House
Shealah Craighead/White House
President Donald Trump at the White House on Nov. 26, 2020.

Mexico’s president responded on Wednesday to a post from President-elect Donald Trump announcing that he plans to create a government office to collect “Tariffs, Duties, and all Revenue that come from Foreign sources.”

In his post on Truth Social, Trump said he would call the new branch the "External Revenue Service."

“We will begin charging those that make money off of us with Trade, and they will start paying, FINALLY, their fair share,” Trump wrote in the post.

Trump has said he plans to put a 25% tariff on goods coming in from Mexico and Canada, a proposal that would violate the free trade agreement between the three countries that his administration negotiated during his last term.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said in her regular morning press conference that that trade agreement has benefited the U.S., as well as Mexico and Canada.

“We’re going to have a dialogue with the U.S. government,” Sheinbaum said.

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Nina Kravinsky is a senior field correspondent covering stories about Sonora and the border from the Hermosillo, Mexico, bureau of KJZZ’s Fronteras Desk.