The 30% tariffs on Mexican products imported by the United States, which were announced in a letter from Donald Trump , President of the United States, to his Mexican counterpart, Claudia Sheinbaum , do not resolve bilateral challenges; on the contrary, they affect shared production chains , warned the Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce, Services and Tourism (Concanaco Servytur) , calling for the activation of the domestic market.
Mexico must focus on making its internal forces more competitive, rather than as a political reaction, as a fundamental national strategy, the business organization emphasized in a statement. It also noted that the country’s defense “cannot be limited to resistance.”
“At Concanaco-Servytur, we believe that domestic consumption—when done consciously—is an act of care, sharing, and commitment. Mexico has a soul in its communities, and every purchase is a way of sowing a future in the neighborhood, the market, and the street where we grew up,” he emphasized.
In this regard, he proposed promoting local consumption, reactivating regional and national tourism, digitizing commerce and services, boosting strategic areas in intermediate cities, and incentivizing value chains with a territorial impact .
The agency considered Trump’s announced measure, scheduled to take effect on August 1, to be “useless, expensive, and counterproductive.” “Imposing tariffs on Mexico would be like putting air conditioning on a broken window.” Furthermore, the potential imposition of such a tax, it emphasized, puts millions of jobs at risk on both sides of the border.
“Mexico and the United States must build solutions, not barriers,” the organization concluded.
There is a bilateral working table: Sheinbaum
In response to Trump’s threat to impose a 30% tariff on Mexican products due to a lack of security results, Sheinbaum asserted that Mexico is doing its partand called on the United States to do its part to combat arms trafficking.
“We’re doing our part; they have to do theirs too. We’ve insisted on controlling the flow of weapons from the United States to Mexico, on arresting people involved in drug trafficking in the United States, and on the United States’ share of the responsibility,” Sheinbaum said at her morning press conference this Monday.
He recalled that there is a bilateral working group and that the goal is to reach an agreement that benefits both countries.
On July 12, Trump published a letter on his Truth Social account detailing the imposition of 30% tariffs on Mexico and accusing the Sheinbaum administration of not doing enough to stop fentanyl trafficking to the United States.
The letter added that if Mexico is successful in combating the cartels and stemming the flow of fentanyl, it would consider adjusting the tariffs , and also warned that additional tariffs would be imposed if Mexico responds with new tariffs on its northern neighbor’s products.
Trump also pointed to, among other factors, the United States’ trade deficit with Mexico, asserting that it is “a major threat to our economy and even to our national security.”
If implemented, the new rate would be added to the tariffs applied by the United States to vehicles and auto parts, steel and aluminum, and the recent 17.09% tariff on Mexican tomatoes that went into effect this Monday, after the United States Department of Commerce announced its withdrawal and termination of the 2019 agreement suspending the antidumping investigation into this fruit from Mexico.
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