President Donald Trump warned Canada and Mexico to expect tariffs of 25% on exports to the United States starting Saturday. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump said he was following through on his campaign threat to impose border taxes on America's neighbors immediately to the north and south of the continental United States over inflows of illegal migrants and drugs and large trade deficits.

Despite earlier reports Donald Trump would wait until March 1, Mexico and Canada will be hit with tariffs of 25 per cent, and China a rate of 10 per cent, from Saturday February 1. Donald Trump will impose tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada and China into the US from Saturday, the White House has confirmed.

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