Mexico is proposing new tariffs on nearly 1,400 goods, as it seeks to boost domestic production.
Many of the new import fees would be on goods from Asian countries.
Mexico is under pressure from the United States to reduce its economic relationship with China. Over the past year, Mexico has made an effort to crack down on counterfeit products from Asia and started to apply initial tariffs on products like textiles.
The tariffs now proposed by Mexico’s government are expected to pass.
Mexico says the tariffs would only affect countries they don’t have an existing trade agreement with, meaning the U.S. won’t face new import fees.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration has levied new tariffs on some Mexican goods and has threatened to expand and increase them.
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Mexico’s security secretary says the new federal prisons will include high-security infrastructure as the country looks to show a crackdown on cartel violence. -
Nearly 2,000 firearms were seized in the Mexican state south of Arizona last year. Officials say the majority of guns used by criminals in Mexico come from the United States. -
An inspection at a Mexican military checkpoint in San Luis Río Colorado resulted in the arrest of two people and the seizure of more than a ton of white powder. -
The constitutional reform requires presidential and gubernatorial candidates in Mexico to renounce any non-Mexican citizenship. -
Dr. Jesús Maximiano Verduzco Soto turned himself in to authorities in Hermosillo after evading arrest for months.
