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The potential diplomatic strain and punitive revisions to trade agreements between the US and Mexico due to Donald Trump's comments
are a unilateral policy announced in April 2025 that levies additional, asymmetric duties on imports intended to mirror perceived barriers faced by American exporters, announced as a broad 10% baselin...
’s in his second term is described by multiple outlets as highly personal, disruptive to established alliances and institutions, and driven by a small inner circle rather than traditional interagency ...
The steel and aluminum tariffs—first reinstated at 25% in March and then escalated in some proclamations to 50% by June—sharply curtailed exports from major suppliers, triggered stock-market reactions...
The 1848 , sealed in the , transferred roughly half a million square miles of Mexican territory to the for about $15 million and reshaped North America after the . The 1853–54 was a much smaller, $10 ...
The short answer: there was no binding treaty or legal instrument that made pay for border security under either administration; repeatedly promised that Mexico would pay for a but did not secure a fo...
Donald Trump’s most concretely “brokered” international agreement that was later ratified and implemented by domestic legislatures is the USMCA, the renegotiation of NAFTA, which became law in all thr...
The United States has violated the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo both in historical practice and through continuing policies that undercut the treaty’s promises of property rights and protections for fo...