Trump issuing 'emergency 25% tariffs' against Colombia after country turned back deportation flights

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Source: CNN Politics

Updated 5:06 PM EST, Sun January 26, 2025


CNN — President Donald Trump on Sunday announced retaliatory tariffs on Colombia after its president blocked US military deportation flights from landing, the first instance of Trump using economic pressure to force other nations to fall in line with his mass deportation plans since he took office last week.

Hours after Trump’s announcement, Colombian President Gustavo Petro said he ordered the commerce ministry to raise tariffs on US imports by 25%. “I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same,” Petro wrote in a long post on X aimed at Trump, before he announced the 25% tax on US goods.

Earlier in the day, Petro announced he had blocked two US military flights carrying migrants heading toward the country and called on the United States to establish better protocols in its treatment of migrants. Petro also left the door open to receiving repatriated migrants traveling on civilian planes.

Following Petro’s announcement, Trump criticized him on social media while announcing a slate of new sanctions and policies targeting Colombia, including “emergency 25% tariffs” on all imports from the country that will be raised to 50% in a week, a “travel ban” for Colombian citizens, and a revocation of visas for Colombian officials in the US along with “all allies and supporters.”

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Updated 3:26 PM EST, Sun January 26, 2025


CNN -- President Donald Trump on Sunday announced retaliatory tariffs on Colombia after its president said he blocked US military deportation flights, the first instance of Trump using economic pressure to force other nations to fall in line with his mass deportation plans since he took office last week.

Earlier in the day, Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced he had blocked two US military flights carrying migrants heading toward the country and called on the United States to establish better protocols in its treatment of migrants. Petro also left the door open to receiving repatriated migrants traveling on civilian planes.

Following Petro's announcement, Trump criticized him on social media while announcing a slate of new sanctions and policies targeting Colombia, including a 25% tariff on all imports from the country, a "travel ban" for Colombian citizens, and a revocation of visas for Colombian officials in the US along with "all allies and supporters."

Trump also ordered stricter inspections of cargo shipments arriving from Colombia, along with banking and finance sanctions and visa sanctions on "all Party Members, Family Members, and Supporters of the Colombian Government." "These measures are just the beginning. We will not allow the Colombian Government to violate its legal obligations with regard to the acceptance and return of the Criminals they forced into the United States!" Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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President Donald Trump is issuing tariffs on Colombia after two repatriation flights of undocumented migrants were not allowed to land in Colombia, according to a Sunday post from the president on his Truth Social network. It's the first retaliatory action the Trump administration has taken against another country over immigration issues.

Trump said he enacted a 25% tariff on all goods coming into the US from Colombia, which will be raised to 50% in one week.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Sunday that he is halting US deportation flights, stating the US "can't treat Colombian migrants like criminals."

According to a flight tracker, two US military flights bound for Colombia were turned back overnight after Petro publicly declared that he was denying entry to American planes carrying Colombian migrants. Trump condemned Petro's actions as a threat to US national security and public safety, asserting that Colombia's denial of the flights violated international obligations to accept criminals being repatriated.

[jls4561]

1. Has Don Jr asked for an exemption for his nose candy imports yet?

[yourout]

2. As if green coffee prices weren't high enough already.

Won't be long and a cup of coffee at Starbucks will be 20 bucks

[Prairie Gates]

7. Starbucks gets 100% of its coffee from Colombia

[onenote]

42. Pretty sure that is not true. Link?

[surfered]

3. Prices of roses and fruits in the winter are going up.

[RainCaster]

27. right before Valentine's Day

Good job TSF!

[surfered]

29. Yes!

[Karadeniz]

4. At this rate he better start building concentration camps here for the rejects.

[The Madcap]

13. Don't worry...

he will. South Texas will be full of mass graves when they figure out how expensive all this will be. Morbid, yes, but it's been done before.

[CentralMass]

26. Some republican prick undertakers will make a fortune.

[Hotler]

33. Not needed for mass graves. Just some lye and a Cat D11 nt

[Oneironaut]

17. They will. That's coming next.

When the deportation progress is too slow / failing, the camps will start.

[Prairie Gates]

5. Colombia ia going to fold on this

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if this was all a bit of Kabuki theater.

If China is smart (and it is) they'd swoop into any Trump tariff threat area and revisit bilateral trade arrangements.

[groundloop]

6. Call it what it is.... a consumer tax.

The motherfucking baby is pitching a hissy fit because someone stood up to him and American consumers will pay the price.

[Dumpy]

22. Columbia folded

Columbia is using its own aircraft. They are sticking to the no USA aircraft in our space.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Geez, price of coffee will double

[doc03]

9. Starbucks will go up another $2

[OnlinePoker]

14. Good incentive not to drink the swill they call coffee. n/t

[wolfie001]

32. Starbucks is fine coffee

I'll drink the gamut, but I do not agree with this statement.

[no_hypocrisy]

10. P.S. at this rate, all countries will have tariffs.

[StarryNite]

11. He is absolutely batshit crazy.

[brush]

12. Hah! Tariffs are his knee jerk reaction to a country not wanting to except bullying by trump to take...

our immigration problems off his hands.

Such an idiot. Mexico did the same thing. Who wants to take his bullying and hisproblems off his hands?

No one.

[Oneear]

15. Coffee Prices will Go UP Coffee Drinkers News

The Longshoreman work will go down for South America, Central America, and CPKC Rail Service.

[ananda]

16. Ermm... who is getting screwed the most?

Americans or Colombians?

I know what I think.

[lapfog_1]

30. coffee and some winter vegetables

The second-largest export from Colombia was coffee, at $1.8 billion,

oil is number one, but it is a fungible commodity meaning that the amount is literally a drop in the barrel.

[onenote]

43. A 25 or 50 percent tariff on Colombian coffee would send buyers fleeing to other sources.

And that wouldn't be good for Colombia, so they acted in their own interest in backing down.

[pfitz59]

18. WTF is an 'Emergency Tariff'?

Everything is an 'emergency' to this dipshit.

[reACTIONary]

20. We should replace all "emergency powers" in all laws...

... with some sort of senate committee consensus provision.

[Bluetus]

23. Congress gave the President some discretion to levy tariffs in "emergency circumstances"

but this probably is way beyond the authority in the law, and ought to be challenged. Get a restraining order and tie these things up for years, just like Trump did with all of his felonies.

[reACTIONary]

19. Coffee will go up, but not...

... cocaine. They'll just increase cocaine exports. Probably double their GDP.

[LeftInTX]

21. Another update: Colombia is gonna pick them up tomorrow morning. They'll get a nicer flight, first class?

Petro later appeared to back down, posting in a statement that he has arranged the presidential plane to “facilitate the dignified return of the nationals who were to arrive today in the morning.”

“This measure responds to the government’s commitment to guarantee dignified conditions. In no way Colombians, as patriots and subjects of rights, have been and will not be banished from Colombian territory,” he said in the statement.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/26/trump-columbia-tariffs-plane-migrants-00200642

[hamsterjill]

40. And yet again, this is fodder for TSF's followers

Is there no one in this world who CAN make a statement and then stand up to the asshole???!!!

[Ford_Prefect]

24. Riddle me this: How does Cutoms collect the increased coke fees?

Venmo, Paypal, or Dropbox?

[calguy]

25. Stock up on coffee right now

Before the price goes up 25-50%.

[wolfie001]

34. I just bought some on dreaded Amazon. I still have a balance on my gift cards

2 -18 oz Starbucks French Roast for like $12.48 ea. and one 32 oz 8 O'Clock coffee for $14.50 or so. Good deals. Gift cards paid the bill. Just in case.

[RainCaster]

28. Fuck the egg price, my coffee's going up!

That one will hurt me. I blame the Orange Pendejo 😡😡😡

[Richard D]

31. A great reply to * from the president of Colombia

Trump, I don't really like traveling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess there are worthy things, I like going to the Black neighborhoods in Washington, there I saw an entire fight in the capital of the US between Black people and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should unite.

I confess I like Walt Whitman, Paul Simon, Noam Chomsky, and Miller.

I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in US history, and I follow them. They were murdered for being workers' leaders with the electric chair, the fascists that are inside the US, just like in my country.

I don't like their oil, Trump, it's going to end humanity because of greed. Maybe one day, along with a glass of whisky that I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk openly about this, but it's hard because you consider me an inferior race and I am not, nor is any Colombian.

So if you know someone stubborn, that's me, period. You can, with your economic power and arrogance, try to carry out a coup like you did with Allende. But I die in my law, I resisted torture, and I resist you. I don't want slave owners next to Colombia, we've had many, and we liberated ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world, and you didn't understand it, this is the land of yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of Colonel Aureliano Buendía, of whom I am one, perhaps the last.

You will kill me, but I will survive in my town, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are people of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea, and freedom.

You don't like our freedom, fine. I don't shake hands with white slave owners. I shake hands with the libertarian whites, heirs of Lincoln, and with the black and white rural boys from the US, before whose graves I cried and prayed in a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Tuscany and after saving myself from Covid.

They are the US, and before them, I kneel, before no one else.

Knock me down, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.

Colombia, now stop looking to the North, look to the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Córdoba, the civilization of that time, from the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic and democracy in Athens; our blood has the resistant blacks, who were turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all of America, there I shelter in its African songs.

My land is from goldsmithing that existed in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs, and from the first artists of the world in Chiribiquete.

You will never dominate us. The warrior who rode through our lands, shouting freedom, and whose name is Bolívar, opposes you.

Our peoples are somewhat fearful, somewhat shy, naive, and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all over Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, present-day Panama, which was once Colombia, and whom you murdered.

I raise a flag, and as Gaitán would say, even if I remain alone, it will still be raised with the Latin American dignity, which is the dignity of America, that your great-grandfather didn't know, and mine did, Mr. President, immigrant in the US.

Your blockade does not scare me; because Colombia, in addition to being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it, and it will offer you its sweetness.

COLOMBIA FROM NOW ON OPENS UP TO THE WHOLE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE, AND HUMANITY.

I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on our human labor fruit to enter the US, I will do the same.

Let our people plant corn, which was discovered in Colombia, and feed the world.

[Bluethroughu]

35. I have family buried in the oldest cemetary in Penn.

I would be illegal because my mother's dad born in Europe.

My father's grandpa born in Ireland.

Ellis Island wants it's immigrants back to deport.

[OAITW r.2.0]

36. That'll show US coffee consumers.

Will Cocaine consumers also be liable for the tariffs?

[C Moon]

37. He's probably creating a shitty economy so he can fix it later and look like a hero.

[JohnnyRingo]

38. Well, there goes the price of Cocaine.

Meanwhile, it'll kill the big three car companies.

[NowsTheTime]

39. Enhancing President Xi's relationships with South & Central America and messing up ours

[Karasu]

41. Yep. Government by extortion and blackmail, full stop. This is no different from the shit he's doing with California and

Greenland. It's the only way he knows how to function. Mob boss-style, Roy Cohn-ass shit.