President Trump has threatened to slap new tariffs on Mexico for failing to deliver water under a decades-old treaty. But climate change has decimated river flows.

Mexico border where trade is a critical part of the economy there’s relief after USMCA goods from Mexico and Canada were excluded from new tariffs. Most of their exports to the United States are exempt if they conform to the trilateral trade agreement.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Friday the country would immediately send Texas farmers a water delivery as part of a treaty that has recently strained tensions with the United States, though she did not specify a quantity.

President Trump late Thursday threatened to impose additional tariffs and potential sanctions against Mexico over a long-running water dispute related to a 1944 treaty. “Mexico OWES Texas 1.3 million acre-feet of water under the 1944 Water Treaty,

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened Mexico with sanctions and tariffs in a dispute over an 81-year-old water treaty that outlines water sharing between the two countries through a network of interconnected dams and reservoirs.