Mexico hints at retaliatory tariffs in response to Trump threats

[mystery-ak]

Mexico hints at retaliatory tariffs in response to Trump threats
By
Zach Halaschak
November 26, 2024 10:57 am
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum hinted that her country would retaliate with its own tariffs if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his plan to levy 25% import duties on Mexican goods.

Sheinbaum made the threat on Tuesday, a day after Trump announced he would impose such tariffs against Canada and Mexico on his first day in office until the two countries manage to stymie the flow of migrants and illegal narcotics into the United States.

The Mexican president referenced U.S. automakers that have plants in her country during her Tuesday remarks, according to the Associated Press.

“One tariff would be followed by another in response, and so on until we put at risk common businesses,” Sheinbaum said.

Sheinbaum, who is on the liberal Left and assumed office earlier this year, pointed out U.S. weapons coming into Mexico and suggested that drugs moving into the U.S. “is a problem of public health and consumption in your country’s society.”

“If a percentage of what the United States spends on war were dedicated to peace and development, that would address the underlying causes of migration,” she added.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/finance-and-economy/3242294/mexico-hints-at-retaliatory-tariffs-trump/

[DefiantMassRINO]

So, the President of Mexico is on the record supporting Mexico's export of iilegal immigrants, trafficked humans, and narcotics?

C'mon, man.  The Chi-coms need to use Mexico to launder their goods, legal and illegal, into the US to avoid incurring anti-China tariffs and trade restrictions.

[GtHawk]

Trumps response should be ‘Bring it Bitch’, and then Trump should hit all the US dollars being sent to Mejico and all the other Central and South American countries. How will we survive without Mejicos goods!

[libertybele]

So...wasn't 'NAFTA' re-negotiated?

[rustynail]

And all the Taco trucks in the US will close in solidarity.

[GtHawk]

And all the Taco trucks in the US will close in solidarity.

That could be the opening salvo in the Burrito Wars.

[libertybele]

Simple ... give manufacturers tax incentives to move corporations in MX back to the U.S.

[Kamaji]

Simple ... give manufacturers tax incentives to move corporations in MX back to the U.S.

[Wingnut]

C'mon. That Mexican Jew Presendente isn't gonna do shit.

[jafo2010]

Rather than tariffs on goods, let's just charge the Mexican government $1 million for every death due to fentanyl.  And if that does not stop them, jack it up $1 million more per death until it does affect them.  They refuse to pay, we close the border completely.  Nothing comes across the border.   They need our market more than we need theirs.

[libertybele]

Rather than tariffs on goods, let's just charge the Mexican government $1 million for every death due to fentanyl.  And if that does not stop them, jack it up $1 million more per death until it does affect them.  They refuse to pay, we close the border completely.  Nothing comes across the border.   They need our market more than we need theirs.

We need to close the border completely period.  No questions.  Just seal it off in it's entirety. Build a wall and man it with guardsmen and drones.

This is going to be a change for both sides but one in which the U.S.A. will prevail.

[libertybele]

....and that isn't feasible why????


Donald Trump said  he would seek to "take" manufacturing jobs from foreign countries, including U.S. allies, if he wins the Nov. 5 election, by offering incentives to encourage companies to relocate to the United States.
Trump promised a "manufacturing renaissance" as the centerpiece of his economic plan and said he would offer foreign companies low taxes and little regulation to entice them.
"We will take other countries' jobs," Trump said during a speech to supporters in Savannah, Georgia, which has one of the largest ports in the U.S. and is a car-manufacturing hub. "We're going to take their factories.".................

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-set-offer-federal-lands-other-incentives-firms-relocating-us-2024-09-24/

[Kamaji]

....and that isn't feasible why????


Donald Trump said  he would seek to "take" manufacturing jobs from foreign countries, including U.S. allies, if he wins the Nov. 5 election, by offering incentives to encourage companies to relocate to the United States.
Trump promised a "manufacturing renaissance" as the centerpiece of his economic plan and said he would offer foreign companies low taxes and little regulation to entice them.
"We will take other countries' jobs," Trump said during a speech to supporters in Savannah, Georgia, which has one of the largest ports in the U.S. and is a car-manufacturing hub. "We're going to take their factories.".................

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-set-offer-federal-lands-other-incentives-firms-relocating-us-2024-09-24/

Yeah, let’s further distort the tax system by using it to implement another set of social policies that we don’t have the courage or honesty to admit involve taking money from one group of people and giving it to another group of people because we like the second group better.


It’s just another effing page from the liberal pagebook. 

You want to bring some manufacturing back to the U.S.?  Then get rid of some of the other myriad ways in which the government distorts the markets, like getting rid of sky high minimum wages, mandatory employer-paid insurance, and union shops, to start with. 


In short, stop being liberals.

[jafo2010]

Sadly, Trump has said many things and the UGLY TRUTH is that it was all empty rhetoric.

In 2016, he promised two key events as his platform, one he said would be executed DAY ONE.  What were they?

1.  Build a wall across our southern border.  Did he do this?  No!  440 miles of a 2,000 mile border is not getting it done.

2.  End the H1-b Visa Program DAY ONE.  Did he do this?  Hell no!  Months into his presidency, he met with the tech
     billionaires and emerged with the promise to increase the number of recipients.  1.6 million white collar jobs lost
     to foreigners. almost exclusively from India. 

     HE MET WITH TECH BILLIONAIRES FROM SILICON VALLEY, MONTHS AGO, AND ONCE AGAIN PROMISED TO INCREASE
     THE NUMBER OF H1-B VISA RECIPIENTS FURTHER.

So, Trump's rhetoric is largely what is referred to as bullsh*t!  I could work at a high paid job until I was 100 years old if he kept his promise and got rid of the H1-b Visa Program, which is executed in direct violation of federal law.  But who pays any attention to the law these days?  NO ONE!!!!

[Hoodat]

Mexico hints at retaliatory tariffs in response to Trump threats

Gee, who saw that coming?  Human nature at work again.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Sadly, Trump has said many things and the UGLY TRUTH is that it was all empty rhetoric.

In 2016, he promised two key events as his platform, one he said would be executed DAY ONE.  What were they?

1.  Build a wall across our southern border.  Did he do this?  No!  440 miles of a 2,000 mile border is not getting it done.

2.  End the H1-b Visa Program DAY ONE.  Did he do this?  Hell no!  Months into his presidency, he met with the tech
     billionaires and emerged with the promise to increase the number of recipients.  1.6 million white collar jobs lost
     to foreigners. almost exclusively from India. 

     HE MET WITH TECH BILLIONAIRES FROM SILICON VALLEY, MONTHS AGO, AND ONCE AGAIN PROMISED TO INCREASE
     THE NUMBER OF H1-B VISA RECIPIENTS FURTHER.

So, Trump's rhetoric is largely what is referred to as bullsh*t!  I could work at a high paid job until I was 100 years old if he kept his promise and got rid of the H1-b Visa Program, which is executed in direct violation of federal law.  But who pays any attention to the law these days?  NO ONE!!!!

Compare the backbench he had back then to what has been brought up now. 

There is no comparison.

And what is wrong with bringing in highly qualified techies under the H1-B visa program?  Sadly, the way our universities are, we have fallen way behind in this area and do not have needed expertise in the tech world as colleges encourage students to pursue degrees in DEI or basket weaving.

Getting needed techies has nothing to do with the flooding of ignorant/unskilled migrants across the border who are wards of the state and bring in trafficking, disease, drugs, etc.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Simple ... give manufacturers tax incentives to move corporations in MX back to the U.S.

Those incentives are represented by the tariffs on goods from Mexico.

A stick rather than a carrot is needed.

[Drago]

It looks like the threat of tariffs has already worked RE: Mexico...before he even takes office:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/11/27/trump-conversation-mexico-president-agreed-stop-migration/

PDJT apparently said it was an "Illegal Immigration & Drugs" thing, not necessarily a manufacturing thing?

"The president-elect’s announcement comes after he recently threatened both Mexico and Canada with a 25 percent tariff on all products if they did not crack down and crime and drugs pouring through U.S. borders."

and

"On January 20th, as one of my many first Executive Orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous Open Borders,” he added. “This Tariff will remain in effect until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country! Both Mexico and Canada have the absolute right and power to easily solve this long simmering problem."

[rustynail]

Has Trump violated the Logan Act?  Has he walked right into a trap?  Is this how it ends even before beginning?