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The links between the United States and Mexico have deepened more than 30 years of loose trade, creating and irritating.
By Ana Swanson and Simon Romero
Ana Swanson reported that Washington and Simon Romero of Mexico City.
When Dennis Nixon began to run in a regional bank in Laredo, Texas, in 1975, there is only one commercial network through the border with Mexico. Now, approximately one billion dollars in commerce and more than 15,000 trucks exceed the line every day and only a quarter of their office, linking savings in the United States and Mexico together.
Laredo is the maximum port frequented in the United States and a duct for automotive pieces, gasoline, lawyers and computers. “You can’t separate it anymore,” said Nixon on US and Mexican economies. Thirty years of economic integration within the framework of an agreement of the loose industry have created “the interdependencies and relationships that it does not perceive and does not measure, until something is bad,” he said.
Now that something has happened. On Saturday, President Trump reached 25% costs in Mexican imports while looking to tighten the Government of Mexico to make more to save migrants and drugs to cross the border. Trump also reached the maximum Canadian goods with a 25% rate and imposed a 10% tax on Chinese imports.
A long -standing supporter of the costs and a complaint of the agreements of the loose industry, Trump does not seem to face the economic relations closest to the United States. It focuses on strengthening the border opposed to illegal immigration and fentanyl flow, two spaces he spoke during his crusade in 2024.
But the president has other oxen with Mexico, adding the economic festival it represents for US workers. The president and its supporters that the imports of cars and metal from Mexico weaken American manufacturers. And they say that the United States-Mexico Agreement, the industry agreement that Trump signed in 2020 to update the North American Loose Industry Agreement, must be updated or perhaps being, of spirit, reconstruction.
Many corporations say that the links between countries are deeper than the maximum Americans think, and politicians such as the costs that seek to separate them will be painful. Of all the main economic partners of the world, the United States and Mexico are among the maximums incorporated, connected through business, commerce, tourism, circle of bonds of relatives, budget and culture. It is a proximity that generates dissatisfaction and efforts to keep the appointment, but also brings many advantages.
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