President Trump threatened new tariffs targeting Colombia while accusing the country's president of encouraging drug production as his administration continues to modify its trade policies amid legal challenges.
The move marks the latest update in the administration's tariff policies, which have shifted and been modified many times since first rolling out in April.
These policy shifts also come ahead of a Supreme Court hearing in early November whereby the administration could be forced to pay back many of the levies if it loses.
The Trump administration's tariff policies continue to shift as officials adapt their implementation strategies.
"I think there's a lot of adaption about how they're implemented and where they're implemented," Everett Eissenstat, who was the deputy director of