LatinNews Daily - 10 April 2026

*Ecuador’s government led by President Daniel Noboa has announced that it will raise existing 50% tariffs on Colombian imports to 100% as of 1 May citing Colombia’s failure to implement “concrete and effective measures regarding border security”. Noboa’s government first imposed a 30% tariff on Colombian imports in January due to the country’s alleged failure to cooperate against crime, prompting Colombia to reciprocate. Ecuador then raised the tariffs to 50% in February. Its latest hiking of the tariffs comes amid a fresh bilateral spat sparked by comments made on 6 April by Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro regarding Ecuador’s former vice president, Jorge Glas (2013-2017), who he described as a “political prisoner”. This led Ecuador’s government to announce it was recalling its ambassador to Colombia. President Petro has blasted Ecuador’s latest tariff hike as “monstruous”, saying that it signals the end of the “Andean pact for Colombia” – a reference to the Comunidad Andina (CAN) trade bloc which comprises Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia. He has also ordered the “immediate” return of Colombia’s ambassador to Ecuador, María Antonia Velasco. The latest escalation in the trade war comes as Petro received a further setback yesterday after Colombia’s constitutional court definitively rejected an economic emergency he announced in December to raise taxes. The court had provisionally suspended the measure in January.

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