Trump wants to play at tariff brinkmanship, assuming that he can bully his way towards squeezing concessions from Mexico and other countries. But, Mexico may now capitalize on an opportunity implement corn tariffs, helping local farmers at the expense of U.S. exporters.
in many parts of the south and mid-west business leaders may be more concerned with the future of the US-Mexico economic relationship.
Trump is going to have to decide whether or not he wants to preserve the U.S.’s existing economic relationship with Mexico. Trump looks at the history since the NAFTA deal was signed in the early 1990s as a time where U.S. industry stagnated and struggled. Trump doesn't seem able to comprehend that his counterpart in Mexico is also skeptical of NAFTA. In Mexico AMLO has long criticized the “neoliberal” policies of the past three decades as killing rural Mexico’s agricultural economy.
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