Trump: US will impose sanctions against Colombia over repatriation flights

US President Donald Trump on Sunday said the United States would impose wide-ranging sanctions and tariffs against Colombia over its refusal to accept US military aircraft carrying deported migrants.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the United States would slap emergency 25 per cent tariffs on all Colombian goods coming into the United States and would raise that to 50 per cent in one week.

In the post, Trump said Colombia’s denial of migrant repatriation flights has jeopardised US national security and the measures are “just the beginning”.

“The United States cannot treat Colombian migrants as criminals. I forbid entry to our territory to US planes carrying Colombian migrants,” President Gustavo Petro wrote on social media.

In a later post, he said he had “turned back US military planes”, without saying when or how many planes were involved.