Mexico got a concession on tariffs from United States President Donald Trump last week, but it couldn’t avoid duties on the steel and aluminum it exports to its northern neighbor.
The United States on Wednesday imposed 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports, as per an executive order Trump signed on Feb. 10. The tariffs — imposed on national security grounds — also apply to hundreds of products made with those metals, including nuts and bolts, bulldozer blades and soda cans, according to Reuters.

Mexico and other countries tried to get an exemption to the duties but were unsuccessful.
“President Trump has once again used the leverage of the American economy, which is the best and biggest in the world, to deliver a win for the American people,” White House spokesperson Kush Desai said in a statement on Tuesday.
“Pursuant to his previous executive orders, a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum with no exceptions or exemptions will go into effect for Canada and all of our other trading partners at midnight, March 12th,” he said.
The tariffs took effect six days after Trump announced that imports from Mexico covered by the USMCA free trade pact would not be subject to U.S. tariffs until at least early April.
That announcement came two days after the United States imposed 25% tariffs on all imports from Mexico.
On Wednesday morning, President Claudia Sheinbaum said that her government would wait until April 2 to decide whether it would retaliate against the U.S. tariffs on Mexican steel and aluminum. April 2 is the date the United States intends to impose reciprocal tariffs on imports from all its trade partners.
Sheinbaum once again expressed confidence that the vast majority of Mexican goods won’t be subject to reciprocal tariffs as Mexico, in accordance with the USMCA, doesn’t impose tariffs on most products it imports from the United States.
Speaking at her morning press conference, she noted that Mexico’s Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard met with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in Washington on Tuesday and said that the two countries had agreed to keep talking ahead of the April 2 commencement of the United States’ planned reciprocal tariffs.
“We’re going to wait until April 2 and then we will decide whether or not to impose reciprocal tariffs,” Sheinbaum said.
While Mexico is adopting a wait-and-see approach, Trump’s new tariffs drew “swift retaliation” from Canada and Europe, Reuters reported.
After the first Trump administration imposed tariffs on Mexican steel and aluminum in 2018, Mexico retaliated with duties on U.S. pork, apples, steel, potatoes, bourbon, cheese and various other products. Many of the products Mexico targeted in 2018 are produced in large quantities in states Trump won in last year’s presidential election, such as Iowa (pork) and Kentucky (bourbon).
In May 2019, almost a year after the tariffs took effect, the United States government agreed to lift its duties on Mexican and Canadian steel and aluminum, removing a major obstacle for the ratification of the USMCA.
The Mexican government’s argument against the current tariffs centered on the fact that Mexico buys more steel and aluminum from the United States than it sells.
Ebrard said last month that the 25% tariffs are illogical and a “bad idea” with regard to Mexico.
Mexico is the world’s second largest exporter of steel, aluminum and products derived from those metals to the United States, according to 2024 data from the U.S. Department of Commerce. The value of those Mexican exports to the U.S. was US $34.83 billion last year, second only to China.
Most of that amount, however, came from the export of products derived from aluminum and steel. Mexico’s exports of steel itself to the United States were worth US $3.5 billion last year, while aluminum shipments generated revenue of $397 million.
After Trump signed his Feb. 10 executive order, the Mexican Iron and Steel Industry Chamber (Canacero) expressed its “profound disagreement” with 25% tariffs on Mexican steel.
“This measure will severely affect the iron and steel industry and North America’s entire metalworking chain, placing competitiveness and regional integration at risk,” Canacero said in a Feb. 11 statement.
The industry group said that the tariffs posed a threat to 75% of Mexico’s steel exports and placed at risk “jobs and key investment in our country.”
“If exclusion of Mexican steel from this measure is not achieved, it will be necessary to apply reciprocal reprisals on United States steel products,” Canacero said.
According to the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO), a Mexico City-based think tank, the United States’ steel and aluminum tariffs will impact 4.7% of all Mexican exports.  Mexico’s exports of steel, aluminum and derivative products collectively contributed to 1.56% of Mexico’s GDP in 2024, the think tank said.
A partir de mañana, 12 de marzo, entrarán en vigor los aranceles del 25% al acero y al aluminio. En el caso del aluminio, impondrá aranceles a ciertos productos inesperados dentro de la lista, lo que afectará las exportaciones mexicanas. Consulta más: https://t.co/NVKY13GAHA pic.twitter.com/4NWgR3C4JH
— IMCO (@imcomx) March 11, 2025

While Mexico only exports about US $3.5 billion of steel and US $397 million of aluminum to the U.S., the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness says the tariffs would apply to a wide variety of products made in Mexico with these metals. (IMCO)
In a statement issued in late February, IMCO noted that auto parts, domestic appliances and electronic products manufactured in Mexico will be affected by the tariffs. The manufacture of those products is “crucial” to the industrial sectors of at least 11 Mexican states, the think tank said.
IMCO calculated that the new 25% tariffs — if they had been in effect in 2024 — would have affected Mexican goods worth US $22.53 billion.
The figure is lower than the total value of Mexico’s steel and aluminum exports to the United States last year because the new tariffs only apply to the steel and aluminum content of a product partially derived from those metals, not the entire product. In addition, United States steel and aluminum used in products exported to the U.S. are not subject to the 25% tariffs.
Among the Mexican products that are subject to the new tariffs, IMCO listed those that generated the most revenue as a result of their shipment to the United States last year.
IMCO noted that Mexico’s auto industry, “one of the country’s main export sectors,” will be “directly” impacted by the tariffs.
The El Economista newspaper reported that the United States’ universal steel and aluminum tariffs will drive up prices for a range of products in the U.S., including cars, domestic appliances, construction materials and solar panels.
The New York Times reported that “because steel and aluminum are used to make so many other products, raising the price of the metal will have ripple effects throughout the U.S. economy.”
“By increasing costs of basic inputs for many companies, the tariffs could harm manufacturers who ultimately employ far more Americans than steel mills and aluminum smelters do, potentially causing Mr. Trump’s plans to bolster U.S. manufacturing to backfire,” the Times said.
With reports from El Economista, Reforma, El Financiero, Reuters and El Universal
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Bishop Wilfred Anagbe of the Makurdi Diocese, Nigeria testifies in front of the House Subcommittee on Africa in March, 2025.  (Video: Africa Subcommittee.)
FIRST ON FOX: A Nigerian bishop has been threatened and his home village murderously attacked after he appealed to lawmakers at a March congressional hearing for the killing of Christians to stop.
Bishop Wilfred Anagbe told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview this week that after he went to Washington to testify, four fatal attacks in 10 days by “terrorist Jihadists” had happened in his diocese, the area he is responsible for.
Nigeria is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a Christian, according to NGO Open Doors International’s 2025 World Watch List (WWL). Of the 4,476 Christians killed worldwide in WWL’s latest reporting period, 3,100 of those who died – 69% – were in Nigeria. 
FEARS REMAIN THIS EASTER THAT CHRISTIANS IN NIGERIA ARE BEING ‘WIPED OUT’ BY MUSLIM EXTREMISTS
Bishop Wilfred Anagbe preaches to his congregation in Nigeria. (Aid to the Church in Need)
Open Doors U.K., added in a statement, “Jihadist violence continues to escalate in Nigeria, and Christians are at particular risk from targeted attacks by Islamic militant groups, including Fulani militants, Boko Haram and ISWAP (Islamic State West Africa Province).”
One leader of one of the biggest churches in Africa’s most populous nation, using the pseudonym “Pastor Winyadebi” because he’s worried about his safety, told Fox News Digital. “It has been attacks upon attacks, religious violence. And we say this because the communities that are attacked are Christian communities.”
“What they (Islamist militants) want is to be sure that Islam [takes] over every part of these places. … And so they’re doing everything to make sure that Christianity is brought down and Islam is [the] established No. 1. They want to make sure that Sharia law (strict Islamic law) has taken over Nigeria,” he said.
Members of St. Leo’s Catholic Church mark Palm Sunday in Ikeja, Nigeria, on April 13, 2025. (Adekunle Ajayi/Getty Images)
Anagbe’s Makurdi Diocese in north-central Nigeria is almost exclusively Christian. But the constant and escalating attacks by Islamist Fulani militants led him to testify at a congressional hearing in March. 
In April, several foreign embassies in Abuja, Nigeria, warned the bishop of credible high-level official threats: that he would be detained upon arrival in Nigeria from the U.S. and that “something might happen to him.”
This led to Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., Anagbe’s congressional host and chair of the House Africa Subcommittee, to write in a statement: “I am appalled by reports that Bishop Wilfred Anagbe and Father Remigius Ihyula (who testified alongside Bishop Anagbe) are facing threats—allegedly from Nigerian government sources and affiliated organizations—because of the Bishop’s testimony before Congress detailing violence in Nigeria’s Benue State. They reflect a troubling pattern of retaliation linked to testimony before Congress on religious freedom abuses in Nigeria.”
CHRISTIANS INCREASINGLY PERSECUTED WORLDWIDE AS ‘MODERN AND HISTORICAL FACTORS CONVERGE’
The U.S. Mission in Nigeria on April 10 posted on X calling for the bishop’s “right to speak freely without fear of retribution or retaliation,” declaring that intimidation and threats had been made “because of their March 12 testimony.”
Bishop Wilfred Anagbe testifies at a House Africa Subcommittee hearing in March. (Africa Subcommittee)
Then the attacks, larger and more frequent than before, started, with four attacks between May 23 and June 1.
Anagbe told Fox News Digital that “what has been happening in my village and diocese is nothing short of terror attacks on innocent villagers in order to seize their lands and occupy.”
“On the 23rd [of] May, one of my priests, Father Solomon Atongo, was shot in the leg by these terrorists and almost lost his life. On the 25th of May, my village, Aondona, was attacked for hours, leaving over 20 people dead, scores injured and thousands now displaced and living in makeshift camps,” he said.
“On the 1st of June, terror was unleashed on Naka town, with many killed and displaced,” Anagbe continued. “This attack was so intense that even those earlier displaced and taking refuge in a nearby school were not spared. All over Nigeria, these terrorists are going about on a jihad and conquering territories and renaming them accordingly.” 
“I have been speaking about this genocide for some years now, but whereas in the past some others saw my advocacy with the political lens, today almost everyone in Nigeria has seen the truth for what it is, especially after my testimony in the U.S. Congress.”
Christian faithful hold signs as they march on the streets of Abuja during a prayer and penance for peace and security in Nigeria on March 1, 2020. (KOLA SULAIMON/AFP via Getty Images)
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The bishop ended the interview with a plea: “The world has a lot to do. First of all, the world must learn from past mistakes, the Holocaust and most recently the Rwandan genocide. In both cases, the world hid its face in the sand like an ostrich. If the world does not rise up now to put a stop to the atrocities orchestrated in the name of being politically correct, it may wake up one day to casualties that make the Rwandan genocide a child’s play. Keeping quiet would be to promote the genocide or ethnic cleansing in Nigeria.”
While the Nigerian government did not respond to a Fox News Digital request for comment, the Catholic Herald reported that the Nigerian Foreign Ministry had contacted the U.S. regarding the bishop’s testimony, noting that “any reports of threats or intimidation against religious leaders would be investigated and appropriate actions would be taken.”
Paul Tilsley is a veteran correspondent who has reported on African affairs for more than three decades from Johannesburg, South Africa. He can be followed on X @paultilsley
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US President Donald Trump has ordered 2,000 National Guardsmen to Los Angeles to deal with unrest over raids on undocumented migrants.
Trump said the federal government would "step in and solve the problem", after the Californian city saw a second day of clashes on Saturday between protesters and federal agents.
Tear gas was used to disperse crowds as residents of the predominantly Latino Paramount district clashed with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents earlier in the day.
As many as 118 arrests were made in LA this week as a result of ICE operations, including 44 on Friday. California Governor Gavin Newsom has condemned the raids as "cruel".
Trump thanked the National Guard for a "job well done" in Los Angeles late on Saturday night.
On Sunday morning, the first group of troops began arriving in the city, staging outside a detention centre where illegal immigrants are taken once detained.
Trump criticised the city's Democratic governor and mayor in a post on his Truth Social platform, calling them "incompetent". He also said protesters would no longer be allowed to wear masks.
Newsom said the federal government's takeover of the National Guard was "purposefully inflammatory" and would "only escalate tensions".
The National Guard is usually called by a state's governor, but Trump has used a provision that allows him to take control himself, Newsom's office told the AP news agency.
Trump had earlier hit out at the governor on social media, saying that if he and LA Mayor Karen Bass could not do their jobs, "then the Federal Government will step in and solve the problem, RIOTS & LOOTERS, the way it should be solved!!!"
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth later threatened to mobilise active-duty marines if violence continued, saying troops at nearby Camp Pendleton were on "high alert". Newsom described this threat as "deranged behaviour".
The Paramount district had calmed considerably late on Saturday evening, but clashes between protesters and law enforcement were still happening.
Outside the Home Depot hardware store where the protests first erupted, the air was thick with tear gas and smoke.
LA county sheriffs fired flash bangs and tear gas every few minutes to try to clear protesters away.
Neighbours and protesters said migrants were locked inside local businesses afraid to come out. Paramount's population is more than 80% Hispanic.
In a statement on Sunday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) said that two deputies had suffered minor injuries. Several individuals were detained with at least one arrested, it added.
A fire at a local mall was quickly extinguished, the LASD said, while fireworks and bottles were thrown and at least one car was burnt. The full extent of the damage is currently unknown.
More protests are expected in the LA area on Sunday.
A White House press release said: "In recent days, violent mobs have attacked ICE Officers and Federal Law Enforcement Agents carrying out basic deportation operations in Los Angeles, California."
The statement added that "California's feckless Democrat leaders" had "abdicated their responsibility" to protect citizens, which was "why President Trump has signed a Presidential Memorandum deploying 2,000 National Guardsmen".
Speaking in Los Angeles, where he had travelled to personally supervise the continuing ICE operations, Trump's "border tsar" Tom Homan warned that there would be "zero tolerance" of any violence or damage to private property.
In a post on X, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino also issued a warning to protesters: "You bring chaos, and we'll bring handcuffs. Law and order will prevail."
Governor Newsom said the federal government "wants a spectacle" and urged people not to give them one by becoming violent.
In a statement on Friday, he said: "Continued chaotic federal sweeps, across California, to meet an arbitrary arrest quota are as reckless as they are cruel".
Earlier, Mayor Bass accused ICE agents of "sowing terror" in Los Angeles.
Angelica Salas, who leads the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, told a recent rally: "Our community is under attack and is being terrorised. These are workers. These are fathers. These are mothers. And this has to stop."
The attack on two Minnesota state lawmakers in their homes was described as politically motivated.
Vance Luther Boelter is accused of killing Democrat Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, and injuring two others.
Yvette Hoffman says she was shot eight times and her husband nine. The gunman is still at large.
The president's impact on investment in the US is far more incremental than he has claimed.
Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that assassinating Khamenei was not a good idea, according to CBS.
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