The US president’s November 12 threat makes a tariff increase conditional on Mexico stopping the caravans. A group traveling north initially aims to reach Mexico City to seek assistance.
US President Donald Trump threatened on 12 November to immediately double tariffs—taxes on imports—on Mexico unless it stopped migrant caravans. His Truth Social post set a condition for an increase, rather than announcing that a doubling had taken effect.
“MEXICO MUST STOP THEM, NOW, and if they do not do so, the Tariffs on Mexico will be IMMEDIATELY DOUBLED,” Trump wrote in the post quoted by Fox News. He said he had informed Mexico, the governor of Texas, US Border Patrol and ICE. The post did not specify which duties he would double.
The threat follows Mexican efforts to reduce existing US tariffs. On 11 November, Deputy Economy Minister for Foreign Trade Luis Rosendo Gutierrez said Mexico’s priority was reducing the impact of US Section 232 tariffs on autos, steel and aluminum. He said about 80 percent of Mexican exports to the United States already entered tariff-free, AsiaOne said.
A caravan left Tapachula, near Mexico’s border with Guatemala, on 10 November and was walking north through southern Mexico on 11 November, Reuters said. A Chiapas state government source estimated the group at about 1,500 people, including many families. Most participants were from Central America.
Before Trump’s new threat, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum described her government’s approach to caravans in remarks published on 11 November by El Economista. She said authorities explain US entry restrictions to participants and offer help returning to their countries when they choose to go back.
The caravan’s initial destination is Mexico City, where participants intend to seek federal assistance and protection from detention while traveling toward the US border.
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