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Economy & Business - February 2026
ECUADOR/COLOMBIA: Noboa unleashes Trump-style tariff war to prod Petro
Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa has taken a page from President Donald Trump’s foreign policy playbook by slapping a tariff on Colombian imports in the hope of getting Bogotá to do more against criminal groups operating along their border.
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