EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – As if taking a page from President Trump’s economic playbook, Mexico plans to more than double tariffs on countries that sell more to Mexicans than they buy from them.

China tops the list.

“These are not coercive measures, and they are not (only) against China,” Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said at a recent news conference broadcast online. “These are decisions we take toward countries we do not have a free trade agreement with. It is a decision meant to strengthen our economy.”

The tariffs of up to 50 percent on imports are included in the Sept. 8 budget proposal for next year that Sheinbaum’s office sent to the Mexican Congress.

The tariffs include 1,463 goods and services in 19 industries such as automotive, auto parts, textile, plastic, steel

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