Several Arizona lawmakers have partnered up to protect “free, fair and reciprocal trade” with Mexico as President Donald Trump’s administration considers a new “seasonal trade remedy,” which would protect U.S. growers, but hurt Arizona importers, Chamber Business News reported.
Arizona's Congressional delegation is working to ensure Arizona importers - and all U.S. importers - are protected with free and fair trade,the story said.The legislators wrote a letter that discusses Trump’s “seasonal trade remedy,” stating it could raise prices for domestic consumers.
The U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA) was implemented as a free trade agreement, but Mexican firms have still be accused of unfair trade by “[throwing] up roadblocks to American companies seeking permits for new or rebranded gas stations, energy storage facilities, and liquefied natural gas terminals,” Gary Clyde Hufbauer, a nonresident fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, told Chamber Business News.
Hufbauer said the three countries need to be faithful to the agreement, but Trump has been accused of implementing tariffs on Canada.
In response, $2.7 billion in tariffs were levied on American goods by Canada.
But Arizona and Mexico have always had a relationship increased by the imports from Mexico. Arizona has even increased the importation. But disputes have risen about imported Mexican agricultural goods with “increasing organized crime activity in Michoacán — the main avocado producing state in Mexico,” Chamber Business News reported.
When the U.S. was considering a 17.5% tariff on Mexican tomatoes in 2019, the U.S. administration said Mexico might retaliate against American imports.
“If the U.S. government seeks any action of this kind against Mexican agricultural exports, the government of Mexico will apply similar measures to U.S. products,” Mexican Deputy Trade Minister Luz Maria de la Mora said in January, 2020, Chamber Business News reported.
Alerts Sign-up