{"id":60047,"date":"2025-01-27T16:20:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T16:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60047"},"modified":"2025-01-27T16:20:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T16:20:44","slug":"us-drops-tariff-threat-on-colombia-after-migration-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/27\/us-drops-tariff-threat-on-colombia-after-migration-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"US Drops Tariff Threat on Colombia After Migration Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Abaire Bisola\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United States has abandoned its plan to impose 25% tariffs on Colombian goods after Colombia agreed to accept deported migrants on U.S. military flights without restrictions, the White House announced.<\/p>\n<p>The tariff threat followed Colombian President Gustavo Petro&#8217;s initial refusal to allow U.S. military deportation flights to land, citing the need to ensure migrants were treated &#8220;with dignity and respect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Petro had proposed repatriating citizens on civilian planes instead.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint resolution, Colombia has now agreed to accept deportees &#8220;without limitation or delay,&#8221; while maintaining dialogue to guarantee the dignity of its citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The White House hailed the agreement as a win for President Donald Trump\u2019s hard-line immigration policies, emphasizing that the tariffs remain ready to be implemented if Colombia fails to honor its commitments.<\/p>\n<p>The diplomatic rift saw both leaders exchange threats on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Trump announced potential tariffs and visa sanctions on Truth Social, while Petro responded on X with plans for counter-tariffs and a defense of Colombia\u2019s heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Colombia\u2019s Foreign Minister, Luis Gilberto Murillo, confirmed that the country will continue receiving deportees under humane conditions and plans to send a delegation to Washington for high-level discussions.<\/p>\n<p>This development comes amid Trump\u2019s broader crackdown on immigration, including mass deportation plans and expanded powers for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Abaire Bisola\u00a0 The United States has abandoned its plan to impose 25% tariffs on Colombian goods after Colombia agreed to accept deported migrants on U.S. military flights without restrictions, the White House announced. The tariff threat followed Colombian President Gustavo Petro&#8217;s initial refusal to allow U.S. military deportation flights to land, citing the need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":60048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60049,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60047\/revisions\/60049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}