Trump Says Colombia Will Accept Deportees, Ending Tariff Standoff

President Trump on Sunday night backed off a threat he had made earlier in the day to impose 25% tariffs and economic sanctions on Colombia, which the White House said had met its demands to repatriate migrants into the South American country.

Trump had issued the threat Sunday afternoon in retaliation for the Colombian government refusing to allow two military planes with migrants to land in the country. But after behind-the-scenes negotiations between the two countries, the White House said Colombia had “agreed to all of President Trump’s terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia returned from the United States.”