The United States and Colombia announced late Sunday they have reached an agreement to end their tariff standoff as the latter accepted to take deported nationals, with Bogota saying it will send the presidential plane to fly back the deportees whose rejected flights catalyzed the conflict.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said he rejected deportation flights because the deportees were being transported in military aircraft.

The White House said on Sunday that Colombia has agreed to all of President Donald Trump’s terms after Trump threatened to impose sweeping retaliatory measures against Colombia, including tariffs and visa sanctions,

The Trump administration had added extra inspections for passengers from Colombia at U.S. ports of entry as part of a pressure campaign on the country’s president. The effects lingered into Wednesday.

If Trump had carried out the threat of tariffs, the prices of many goods imported from Colombia could have increased, including coffee, flowers and crude oil.

"We are unwavering in our commitment to end illegal immigration," U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House: Colombia agrees to accept deported migrants; US drops tariff threat but maintains other penalties for now.

Washington and Bogotá have for years had a bilateral agreement allowing for regular deportation flights that have, until now, gone to Colombia at the rate of at least twice a week without problems.

Colombia has not recognized Maduro’s victory, but it also has not cut diplomatic relations with the country. Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli, the Andes director at the Washington Office on Latin America ...

Colombia is respected.” In a later Sunday post, he also announced that he instructed his foreign trade minister to raise tariffs on U.S. imports to 25% after Mr. Trump said he would do the same ...