Salayandia owns and operates a factory in Juarez, Mexico that auto parts and ships deliver the trucks of metal pipes into warehouses in the US state of texas for mounting. For the last month, his job was thrown into a turret water.
“It becomes a political game … therefore, two days were a significant reduction in traffic. Not even US officials knew whether they would collect the trailers and the headings and anti-Protocice between the United States and Mexico. “There is so much … It is a misinformation, confusion and uncertainty. There is a lot of unknowns, about how the tariffs will be introduced, how it will fit in, how they will follow, how they will be charged.”
US President Donald Trump’s Complicated tariff policies They left large industries operating between Mexico and the United States, from the car, in agriculture, to textiles, abolishing that they adhere to variable rules and examining their future.
26. Marta Trump announced New 25 percent of cars on cars and parts of the car Produced abroad to take effect 3. April. Tariffs will make Salayandi reduce their workforce, and it begins to think about alternative location options for his factory, where he would invest in automation and robots in the production process to avoid high labor costs.
“Past politicians saw a globalized world in which things were produced in lower costs … but now, with the arrival of Trump, which has an alternative economic vision, manufacturers begin to think about changing the way production,” Salayandia said.
4. March, when his trucks are stuck at the border, a tariff for 25 percent was set to take effect on the goods they imported from Mexico. But as the Mexican business community waited with the shelving lined to see if Claudia Sheinbaum President could negotiate her output from an orderTrump announced that the goods are counted in accordance with the USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canadian Agreement or T-MEC, as a trade pact in Spanish) would be exempt from tariffs by 2. April. This would indulge more than half of the rates of tariffs for another month.
The new rule was not completely sigh for business leaders in Mexico, who say that the atmosphere is uncertainty is ongoing, because they comply with T-MEC and care about policies coming to the pipeline.
Mexican politicians quickly pointed out that Mexican Peso remained quite stable, between 20 and 21 pesos to dollars.
Mexicov Secretary MARCEMA MARCELO Ebrard said that he would work with companies, especially Goliath automotive industry, to match 90 percent of the exports within the T-MEC agreement guidelines. But that could take many months. Now, with the new tariffs focused on automatically focused on the last week, all these efforts may have been in vain.
“What we seek is the preferential treatment for Mexico, in a way that in our country we can protect work and economic activity,” said ebrard on the news 27. March. “We have already had six meetings with (US) secretary for trade … there is no one of the level of communication with the United States.”
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About 40 percent of the car parts used in the vehicle sold in the United States is produced through the border in Mexican cities whose economies rely on the car factory. The Mexican automotive industry generates over $ 100 billion in annual income and exports over three million cars, mostly in the United States.
Alberto Bustamante, director of the Mexican National Agency for Automotive Automotive Suppliers, said that tariffs affect the automotive industry in different ways, depending on whether the company exports parts or entire composed cars. It also includes greater philosophical questions, such as “What is the car?”.
“As a private sector, we don’t have any possibilities. If it depended on us, we would already understand that, but it doesn’t depend on us, it depends on the government,” Bustamante said. “In the US, it is five million jobs if these tariffs take effect, and in Mexico, one million.”
He said that specialty and luxurious vehicles with unusual parts would be those who are most affected by current tariffs, as well as those made of steel or aluminum, because Trump has further put a tariff of 25 percent on the goods with these metals, who kicked the 12th. March.
Because it would be difficult to fit in the T-MEC guidelines, affected companies need to decide whether they pay 25 percent of taxes, or should they only spend in Mexico and move their business to elsewhere.
Sheinbaum, instead of focusing on current turbulence, has set their sights on T-MEC reform to ensure long-term stability for the Mexican economy. But she won’t get that opportunity until 2026. years, when the agreement be for review. Should Trump implement the car industry tariffs 3. April, Mexico will respond with counter tariffs.
Meanwhile, Bustamante said car manufacturers start reviewing their 10-year plans and consider or leaving Mexico as a production center or turning from the USA as their primary market.
Cars are not the only products whose status is sitting in a cleaner. Other goods, from peanuts to medical instruments, also have different degrees of compliance with T-MEC contract.
Avocados – nearly 3 billion hands and culinary pride Mexico – do not always fit in T-MEC, depending on the harvest and toilet processes that use certain companies using certain companies. Mexico sends more than two billion pounds of avocado every year, and the tariffs could push prices for popular fruit as well as Mexican avocado growers to ensure that the orchards are in accordance with T-MIC regulations.
“Our plan is to open new markets,” said Eleazar Oceguera, director of the Association of Avocados manufacturers in Jalisac. “If there is any problem, we want an alternative. We cannot concentrate anymore in just one market.”
Both Obeguer and Bustamante said the actual cost will come to the American consumer, because thousands of products will become more expensive, and car prices rise several thousand dollars per vehicle.
The atmosphere of insecurity spread even to industries that completely fit into the T-MEC guidelines, as Trump considers the application of wiping tariffs. Such a scenario pushed the Mexican economy in the recession, while the American economy would face prices.
“We will always defend Mexican companies, it is part of our fundamental work,” sheinbaum 27 said. March. “The essence of the trade business is that there should be no tariffs. That is the essence.”
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