Due to the customs threat, Colombia agreed to receive US flights that return Colombians who entered the country illegally.
The United States has put on hold its threat to impose 25 percent import tariffs on Colombia. The White House says Colombia has agreed to accept repatriation flights for people who entered the United States illegally.
According to the White House, the nature import duties and other sanctions will not be signed if Colombia honors the promise it made late on Sunday to return flights to the host.
– We have gotten out of the deadlock with the United States, said the Colombian foreign minister Luis Gilberto Murillo in its announcement.
The draft US sanctions included 25 percent import duties on Colombian products, which would have risen to 50 percent within a week. The sanctions would have included travel bans on members of the Colombian administration and sanctions on the banking industry.
The dispute started when Colombia demanded guarantees from the United States for the humane treatment of returnees in exchange for accepting return flights. Over the weekend, the United States returned a batch of people who had entered the country illegally to Brazil with their hands and feet tied.
Between 2020 and 2024, Colombia received 475 return flights from the United States.
AP, Reuters