President Claudia Sheinbaum suggested on Tuesday that Mexico could retaliate with tariffs of its own after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose 25% import tariffs on Mexican goods if the country does not stop the flow of drugs and migrants across the border .

Sheinbaum said she was willing to engage in conversations on the issue but said drugs are a U.S. problem.

“The response would be one tariff following another and so on until we endanger shared enterprises,” Sheinbaum said, referring to U.S. automakers that have plants on both sides of the border.

She said Tuesday that Mexico has done much to stem the flow of migrants, noting that “caravans of migrants are no longer reaching the border.”

Sir Keir Starmer could raise taxes on American staples such as Harley Davidsons, Jack Daniel’s whiskey and Levi’s jeans if Donald Trump targets Britain with tariffs.

The Prime Minister has been urged to make Britain “Trump-proof” after the president-elect threatened to unilaterally impose massive tariffs on imports into the US overnight on his first day in office.

Archie Mitchell Reports from London.

While Donald Trump claims his tariff plan will hurt U.S. trading partners, what does that actually mean for American consumers?

Donald Trump’s second son went on to rant about costing the three countries’ economies “billions,” but without acknowledging the impact the tariffs are having on American consumers as prices of imported goods are inevitably raised in response.

Gustaf Kilander has the story.

According to Donald Trump, “the most beautiful word in the dictionary” is tariffs.

It says a lot about the values ​​of the US president-elect – no doubt we can all think of many other words – but this is his decision and we must live with the consequences.

True to form, we got a taste of what was to come today when he fired the first salvo, promising to impose 25 percent duties on all imports from Canada and Mexico and an additional 10 percent on Chinese goods. They come into force on the first day of his term in office. The tariffs would remain in place “until drugs, especially fentanyl and all illegal aliens, stop this invasion of our country.”

The use of capital letters is for orientation purposes. This will be a commander-in-chief who, at least for the time being, will not tolerate any resistance, who will see trade as a way to impose social and domestic policies on other nations.

Economists are generally skeptical and consider tariffs a mostly inefficient way for governments to raise money. They are particularly concerned about Trump’s recent proposed tariffs.

Carl B. Weinberg and Rubeela Farooqi, economists at High Frequency Economics, said Tuesday that energy, automobiles and food supplies will be particularly hard hit.

“Imposing tariffs on trade flows into the United States without first preparing alternative sources of the affected goods and services will immediately drive up the price of imported items,” Weinberg and Farooqi wrote. “Because many of these goods are consumer goods, households are becoming poorer.”

High Frequency Economics believes the threats are not intended to support new trade policies, but rather are a tool to bring about some changes along borders and for imports from Canada, Mexico and China.

MSNBC host Jen Psaki took the opportunity this week to offer and point out several compliments for President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial choice as defense secretary Pete Hegseth He is credited with his military service and his talent as a television presenter.

At the same time, the former White Press press secretary delivered a scathing criticism of the former Fox News star’s ability to lead the Pentagon.

Justin Barangoa has the story.

Alex Woodward Reports from the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan, where Rudy Giuliani appeared in court this morning for a status conference on his real estate turnover case related to his defamation verdict.

Judge Lewis Liman ruled that the former Trump lawyer’s “social schedule” for the president-elect’s inauguration was not an excuse for him to skip an upcoming trial in the case.

Liman also warned Giuliani that he could face sanctions if he continues to evade court orders to turn over related property to the two women he defamed and who are trying to collect the nearly $150 million he owes them.

Judge Liman issued an “advice or warning” to stick with the orders after plaintiffs’ lawyers said they had not yet received title to a Mercedes-Benz convertible.

Then Giuliani spoke up from the defense table, raising his voice and saying that “every suggestion” the judge made about him was “false” and that he was having trouble keeping up with orders despite being short on cash.

“I don’t have a penny and it’s their fault!”

Finally, Liman warned Giuliani’s new lawyer – his lawyers formally resigned at the start of today’s hearing, without a handshake or a nod from their former client – that “it should be no higher priority for your client than following the court’s orders, Point.” “

Visitors buying refrigerator magnets in Times Square or other New York tourist hotspots in recent years were most likely buying the work of Du Jing or one of her fellow exporters in a small Chinese city that supplies the United States and the world with tons of small goods .

You and her husband run Yiwu Xianchuang Handicraft Manufacturing in the eastern city of Yiwu, home to the largest wholesale market in the world. Products from here — from plush toys to glass vases to portable toolboxes — are sold in stores and online platforms around the world, including to U.S. consumers on Amazon.

The United States has been a major destination for Chinese goods for years, but exporters like those in Yiwu have reduced their dependence on the world’s largest consumer market as Beijing and Washington spar over trade. Some have shifted production to Southeast Asia and other parts of the world to avoid U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods.

During part of The Ingraham AngleThe moderator criticized the prosecutors, district attorneys and judges who had brought criminal charges against Donald Trump or conducted cases against Donald Trump, calling them “modern-day Keystone cops.”

Ariana Baio has the story.