Mexican-made tiles are piled up on the pavement next to a warehouse in New Mexico. A furniture factory and a jalapeno exporter are fretting about a huge financial hit next week. And hundreds of semi-trailers carrying medical devices, televisions and Toyota pickups idled in line Friday at the truck crossing in Tijuana.
Trump says he will impose 5% tariffs on all goods imported from Mexico starting Monday unless the country does more to stop the flow of Central American immigrants into the U.S. "There's so much uncertainty. Not even the secretary of the economy can tell us what the future holds," she said. "It's totally absurd."
He calculates that if tariffs are ramped up to 25% by October, as Trump has threatened, 90 per cent of his clients will go out of business. "We need to start looking to see how we fight to get back that 5% if it happens," said Luis Manuel Hernandez, head of Index Tijuana, an association of manufacturers in Baja California whose members include Toyota, Hyundai and other major corporations. "Maybe we become 5% more competitive."
She said the mood by some companies is sombre, especially for businesses such as those in the medical device industry that have never had to pay duties.
No tariffs being implemented. The negotiation strategy worked.
NO Need to Deal reached NO TARIFFS to be implemented on Monday
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