But her statement — the day after she held a phone call with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump — did not make clear who had offered what.

The Mexican president and Trump have given dramatically different versions of the call Wednesday. Trump said on his Truth Social platform that she had agreed to “stop Migration through Mexico.”

Another check on the administration could be the fear of tariff-induced inflation. Americans’ experience of the highest price rises in 40 years helped doom Kamala Harris’s election bid. Mr Trump may not want to be seen as the architect behind surging prices of everything from Americans’ breakfast avocados to their newest set of wheels.

President-elect Trump has put the country’s top three trading partners on notice less than two months before he takes office. The former president threatened Monday to impose steep 25 percent tariffs on all goods from Canada and Mexico — two key U.

The president-elect’s opening salvo in trade and border talks with the United States’ neighbors is casting a harsh light on the North American alliance.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says she is confident that a tariff war with the United States can be averted

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke to President-elect Donald Trump after he threatened to impose tariffs and she hinted at retaliation in a letter.

Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Thursday she did not specifically discuss tariffs in a call with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump a day earlier, after Trump threatened a 25% import tax that appears to contravene a free trade pact.