Mexico’s Sheinbaum Says No Deal in Trump Call, Talks Persist (1)

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said there’s no agreement yet with her US counterpart Donald Trump after the two spoke last week about lifting US tariffs.

The Mexican head of state said on Monday that they had discussed an existing 25% tariff on imported vehicles and an equivalent one on steel and aluminum.

Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s president

Photographer: Mayolo Lopez Gutierrez/Bloomberg

“We didn’t reach an agreement but we did establish our arguments. In the case of steel and aluminum, we established that we have a deficit. The US exports more steel and aluminum to Mexico than Mexico to the US,” Sheinbaum said at her daily press briefing ...