# Trump teases tariffs may go higher in the future | Fox News

## President Trump

### President Donald Trump

Trump teases that tariffs against neighboring countries Mexico and Canada could go higher in the future in an exclusive interview with Fox News that aired Sunday.

"I think ," he said, addressing CEOs' desire to see predictability for CapEx spending and shareholder purposes. "But the tariffs could go up as time goes by, and they may go up…" he added.

The president discussed tariffs, diplomacy, and everything in between during an exclusive interview with Maria Bartiromo on .

For years, globalists have been ripping off the United States. They've been taking money away from the United States, and all we're doing is getting some of it back, and we're going to treat our country fairly, Trump continued.

This country has been ripped off from every nation in the world, every company in the world. We've been ripped off at levels never seen before, and what we're going to do is get it back.

Trump has imposed tariffs on Mexico and Canada, as well as foreign adversary China, citing the countries' alleged border control issues leading to fentanyl pouring into the U.S. and killing American citizens.

He has argued that the  from China to the U.S. via Mexican and Canadian imports, and he has temporarily exempted most goods from Canada and Mexico covered under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) from his 25% tariffs, but the tariffs will be reinstated next month.

He told Bartiromo the decision came from wanting to "help" the countries to some extent.

"We're a big, big country, and they do a lot of their business with us, whereas in our case it's much less significant. We do very little with Canada by comparison, and I wanted to help the American carmakers until April 2nd," he said.

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Taylor Penley is an associate editor with Fox News.
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