Mexico Never Agreed To Farm Deal With US, Contradicting Trump

Discussion in 'Wall St. News' started by Stockolio, Jun 8, 2019.

  1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...eed-to-farm-deal-with-u-s-contradicting-trump

    Mexico never agreed to buy more U.S. farm products as part of a deal reached late Friday on border security and illegal immigration that averted the threat of U.S. tariffs, said three Mexican officials, contradicting a claim made by President Donald Trump.

    Trump on Saturday told his 61 million Twitter followers in an all-caps message that Mexico had agreed to “immediately begin buying large quantities of agricultural product from our great patriot farmers.”

    Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump

    MEXICO HAS AGREED TO IMMEDIATELY BEGIN BUYING LARGE QUANTITIES OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT FROM OUR GREAT PATRIOT FARMERS!

    Sent via Twitter for iPhone.

    View original tweet.

    But the communique issued late Friday by the State Department -- the U.S.-Mexico Joint Declaration -- made no mention of agricultural trade as part of the agreement.

    The State Department didn’t immediately respond to an inquiry through its press department. The White House didn’t comment. The Mexican foreign ministry’s press office declined to comment.

    Mexico is already a large buyer of U.S. farm goods, including corn, soybeans, pork and dairy products. It had given no indication of attempting to find alternative suppliers during the one-week standoff over Trump’s proposed steep tariffs on Mexican goods.

    Increasing Mexico’s purchases from the U.S. wasn’t discussed during the three days of talks in Washington that led up to Friday’s agreement, said the three people with knowledge of the deliberations who weren’t authorized to speak publicly.

    Mexico has no state-owned agricultural conglomerate to buy food products or handle distribution, or a government program that could buy farm equipment for delivery to producers.

    Trump earlier on Friday suggested the talks were covering trade in agriculture, and not just border security issues as members of his administration had said -- and that the State Department communique listed. If a deal was made, Trump said at the time, “they will begin purchasing Farm & Agricultural products at very high levels.”

    Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump

    If we are able to make the deal with Mexico, & there is a good chance that we will, they will begin purchasing Farm & Agricultural products at very high levels, starting immediately. If we are unable to make the deal, Mexico will begin paying Tariffs at the 5% level on Monday!

    Sent via Twitter for iPhone.

    View original tweet.

    Trump on Saturday was fund-raising on the back of the Mexican agreement. His campaign sent out a “donate now” email that read in part, “Art of the Deal! Mexico has agreed to help END ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. Promises Made. Promises Kept.”

    Farm states, among the strongest of Trump’s supporters, have been hit hard by the president’s trade war against China, and the threat of additional action against Mexico had some farm-state senators up in arms. The president is expected to travel to the heartland to hold a private fund-raiser in West Des Moines on Tuesday.
     
  2. RedDuke

    RedDuke

    If true, he is really sick and need to be removed from the office.

    We can not have a guy with a launch pad to destroy the world who is delusional and can not tell his fantasies apart from reality.
     
  3. Overnight

    Overnight

    Welcome to late 2017. Teehee.
     
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  4. Cuddles

    Cuddles

     
  5. DaveV

    DaveV

  6. Oh, you mean-
    “If you like your Doctor, you can keep your doctor”
    “The Affordable Care Act will LOWER insurance premiums for everyone”
    “ISIS is the JV squad”
    “There is no spying on Americans”
    Etc etc etc etc etc etc etc
     
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  7. %%
    LOL- great points CL.
    TWO issues+ NYT is known for fake news.If they are dumb enough to keep putting tariffs on;Smoot Hawley could overpower the Fed- it has before .

    Pre-[election-4 year +/years] years tend to be super strong; but summer rally tends to be weakest.More good/positive news= TSLA went down again-LOL-LOL.:D:D
     
  8. ironchef

    ironchef

    Why is that related to Trump & Mexico?o_O
     
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  9. RedDuke

    RedDuke

    I am not taking about lying, yes Obama lied, Trump of course for every Obama lie spits out 10. I am talking about the situation where US President no longer can tell a difference between reality and his fantasies.
     
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    Because its Wall St news like the title says.Besides that Mr Musk is such a crooked capitalist; short hater $40,000,000 SEC fine-that is what happens-people talk about it .:D:D
     
    #10     Jun 10, 2019