Within a day of 25% across-the-board tariffs on Canada and Mexico going into effect, President Donald Trump put in place a carveout for U.S. auto manufacturers that fabricate there.
That includes a Ford plant in Hermosillo, Mexico, about three hours south of the Arizona border, that exports cars and trucks into the United States.
Billions of dollars worth of goods move across the Sonora-Arizona border each year. Sonoran Gov. Alfonso Durazo said on social media he would “close ranks” around Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum in a visit to Mexico City this weekend.
A letter signed by him and several other Mexican governors said Trump’s decision to impose a tariff on Mexican goods would hurt both countries.
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The department did not release a list of names of the people it says are family, business or personal acquaintances of people associated with the drug cartel. -
Two U.S. and two local Mexican officials died in the northern Mexican state. The state attorney general says they were on the way back from destroying alleged drug labs. -
The visit comes ahead of a mandated six-year review of the trade pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada this summer. -
Mexico’s economy minister said representatives from the firm Foxconn will visit Hermosillo this month. -
The sanctions on casinos in the border state of Tamaulipas come after sanctions on some Sonoran casinos last year.
