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Donald Trump says he has ordered emergency tariffs on goods and an immediate travel ban on Colombian officials after the country rejected two flights carrying migrants repatriated from America.
The US president also promised to increase border checks of all Colombian nationals entering the US and said Colombia had "jeopardised" national security refusing to accept the flights.
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Colombian President Gustavo Petro has pledged to defy the Trump sanctions by imposing his own 25 per cent tariffs on US goods entering his country. 6park.com
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United States President Donald Trump says he has ordered emergency tariffs on goods and an immediate travel ban on Colombian officials after the country rejected two flights carrying migrants repatriated from America.
Mr Trump made the announcement on his Truth Social social media platform on Sunday local time and said the decision of Colombian President Gustavo Petro had "jeopardised" national security in the US. 6park.com
"These measures are just the beginning," the president wrote in his post. 
"We will not allow the Colombian government to violate its legal obligations with regard to the acceptance and return of the criminals they forced into the United States."
In his post, the president announced he had ordered emergency tariffs of 25 per cent to be applied to the costs of Colombian goods coming into the US, with the figure to be raised to 50 per cent in one week.
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US President Donald Trump say he has ordered immediate sanctions against Colombia. (AP:  Mark Schiefelbein)
He also said there would be a "travel ban and immediate visa revocations on the Colombian government officials, and all allies and supporters", as well as visa sanctions on Colombian government party members, their family and supporters.
Increased customs and border protection checks would also be enforced against Colombians and cargo coming into the US, the president said.
Mr Trump's comments came after Mr Petro announced Colombia would not accept flights carrying migrants deported from the US until the Trump administration created a protocol that treated those individuals with "dignity".
Hours later, Mr Petro responded to the US president's sanctions in a lengthy statement posted on X by announcing he would also be imposing 25 per cent tariffs on US goods entering Colombia.
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Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced his country would not take repatriation flights from the US until the Trump administration created a policy that treated migrants with 'dignity'. (Reuters: Luisa Gonzalez)

"I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed," Mr Petro said in the post. 6park.com
"You consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian. So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. 
"You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves.
"Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty … From today on, Colombia is open to the entire work, with open arms."
US imports of Colombian goods and services were valued at $US24.8 billion ($39.2 billion) in 2022, according to the Office of the United States Trade Representative.
Global economic monitor CEPII says Colombia's biggest export to the US is crude petroleum, which accounts for almost 40 per cent of its trade into America, followed by coffee and cut flowers.
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Donald Trump said his sanctions on Colombia would include a travel ban and immediate revocation of visas for Colombian government officials.  (Reuters: Eduardo Munoz)
In announcing his earlier rejection of migrant repatriation flights, Mr Petro denounced the US' handling of deportees "as criminals" along with a news video of migrants reportedly deported to Brazil walking on a tarmac with their hands and feet restrained. 6park.com
"A migrant is not a criminal and must be treated with the dignity that a human being deserves," Mr Petro said. 6park.com
"That is why I returned the US military planes that were carrying Colombian migrants."
He also added that his country would receive Colombians in "civilian air planes" and "without treatment like criminals".
Colombia had accepted 475 deportation flights from the United States between 2020 and 2024 — including 124 last year — putting the country fifth in total behind Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and El Salvador, according to Witness at the Border, an advocacy group that tracks flight data. 
Colombians emerged in recent years as a major presence on the US border with Mexico, aided in part by a visa regime that allows them to easily fly to Mexico and avoid trekking though the treacherous Darien Gap. 
They ranked fourth with 127,604 arrests for illegal crossings during a 12-month period through September, behind Mexicans, Guatemalans and Venezuelans.
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The US government says the country imported $US24.8 billion worth of Colombian goods and services in 2022. (Reuters: Ken Cedeno)
Mr Petro, a former leftist guerilla, later announced that the South American country's presidential aircraft had been made available to facilitate the return of migrants who were to arrive hours earlier on the US military airplanes and guarantee them “dignified conditions."
Two hours after Mr Trump's order of the sanctions, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused Mr Petro of initially authorising the migrant repatriation flights to his country but rescinding that approval after planes had taken off.
"It is the responsibility of each nation to take back their citizens who are illegally present in the United States in a serious and expeditious manner," Mr Rubio said in a post on X.
"President Trump has made it clear that under his administration, America will no longer be lied to nor taken advantage of." 6park.com
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Mr Petro refuted that claim, saying: "I will never allow Colombians to be brought in handcuffs on flights. Marco, if officials from the Foreign Ministry allowed this, it would never be under my direction."
On Saturday in Brazil, the country's foreign ministry condemned the "degrading treatment" of Brazilians after a plane carrying 88 Brazilian passengers, 16 US security agents and eight crew members had been originally scheduled to arrive in Belo Horizonte in the south-eastern state of Minas Gerais.
Brazilian officials ordered the removal of handcuffs seen in a news video, and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva designated a Brazilian Air Force flight to complete their journey, the government said in a statement.
Rebellious states work to make things tough for Trump
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Photo shows Donald Trump wears a blue suit and red tie as he looks to his side while standing at a podium
With the Democrats in the minority in both chambers of the US Congress, it's likely the anti-Trump resistance will be led from outside the nation's capital.
The commercial charter flight was the second this year from the US carrying undocumented migrants deported back to Brazil and the first since Trump's inauguration, according to Brazil's federal police.
As part of a flurry of actions to make good on Mr Trump's election campaign promises to crack down on illegal immigration, his new administration is using active-duty military to help secure the border and carry out deportations.
Two Air Force C-17 cargo planes carrying migrants removed from the US touched down early on Friday in Guatemala. 
That same day, Honduras received two deportation flights carrying a total of 193 people.
Colombia's refusal to accept the flights, however, is the second case of a Latin American nation refusing deportation flights, after Mexico also refused a request last week from the Trump administration to allow US military aircraft carrying migrants to land.
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