RPT-Trump: looking at economic penalty for drugs coming from Mexico

President Donald Trump said on Friday he is considering an economic penalty apart from tariffs to counter the smuggling of drugs from Mexico across the southern U.S. border.

"Likewise I am looking at an economic penalty for the 500 Billion Dollars in illegal DRUGS that are shipped and smuggled through Mexico and across our Southern Border," Trump said in a Twitter post as he prepared to leave the White House for a two-day trip that will include a visit to the border. (Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)