USA., The Republican candidate for the presidency of the United States, Donald Trump, threatened today to impose tariffs of up to 200 percent on vehicles imported from Mexico, this as part of the protectionist rhetoric in the trade of the neighboring country before the elections next November 5.
On September 24, during a campaign speech in Savannah, Georgia, Trump promised to impose a 100 percent tariff on any vehicle imported from Mexico. Today at his rally at an airport in Juneau, in the state of Wisconsin, he doubled the figure.
“We will put a 200 percent tariff if we have to. We are not going to let it happen. We are not going to let those cars enter the United States,” warned the businessman and politician who is in a tight electoral race for the presidency of United States against its opponent, the Democrat, Kamala Harris.
Trump made his remarks about the tariffs while pledging to strengthen the U.S. auto industry.
The Tax Policy Center think tank has said that a massive new tariff on Mexican vehicle exports “would likely raise the cost of motor vehicles, both domestic and imported, both used and new.”
At the time, the then virtual president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, noted that it was “very difficult” for the United States to impose tariffs on automobiles or auto parts manufactured in Mexico, since doing so would imply an increase in their cost for the neighboring country. .
”I find it very difficult that they are going to impose tariffs, and we must always put the truth of reality, what is happening, before any political issue. “One thing is what is said in the campaign and another is what is actually going to be done,” said the current president.
