Every day passing is clearer than the president of the United States, Donald Trump, is determined to start a World Trade War.
And he is doing everything, with the power of his signature.
He is trying to write a new chapter in world economic history.
It seeks to reverse the era of economic globalization, and return to that of localism, under the slogan of the “magician” or Make America Great Again.
The main Trumpist objective is summarized in Anglicism: Reshoring, as the process is known by which companies bring the production and manufacture of goods to their original country.
Everything indicates that in that purpose, he does not care or care less, the consolidation of the Mexico Treaty, the United States, Canada (T-MEC).
The firm of numerous and forceful executive orders, which have the application of dates and sinister tariffs, is characterizing Donald Trump, like no other, in the history of that country.
Its aggressive tariff policy aims to reject imports from China.
Trump began this commercial war against China in his first term.
Now it is extending it against its own and strangers.
He wants to apply his favorite word: “Tariffs”, to all countries that export to the US.
Donald Trump, against the Orthodox economic arguments, is using tariffs as a hot weapon.
It serves the same, to achieve objectives other than trade, than to eliminate – according to him – the disadvantages of his country against other nations.
As soon as he has been possession on January 20, as president of the US and has used a good part of the first 150 cross feathers, placed with gold, from a 350 package he requested before starting his management, for Sign your executive orders.
Paradoxically – according to journalistic versions – the presidential pen are lacquered and recorded in China and assembled in Rodhe Island, with a mixture of national and foreign components.
The presidential pen, such as the pistons used in the North American automotive market (between Mexico, the United States and Canada) are a sign of world commercial integration, for the first case and specifically the integration of the North American market, for the second example.
In his campaign, as elected president and now as acting president, Trump has been consistent.
Its intention is to apply tariffs to all countries with which it has commercial relations.
Commercial partners or not, you will seek that everyone is taxed to the US.
Threat to apply tariffs to all, without exception or exemption.
Yesterday (February 13) signed a memorandum to impose “reciprocal tariffs” to other countries.
Not just that. He said that United States allies are usually “worse than our enemies” on commercial level.
The original threat that became an executive order to apply 25% of tariffs to all the products that Mexico exports to the US, managed to be postponed by President Claudia Sheinbaum, for 30 days until March 3, with the condition that her government It will place 10 thousand elements of the National Guard, on the northern border and fight Fentanil’s smuggling.
Despite the truce, the president of the US has made new threats and announced the entry into force as of March 12 of a Steel and Aluminum Tax that Mexico exports to that country.
In the last hours he has threatened to impose tariffs on the Mexican automotive industry, although he did not say what a percentage or from when he will apply them.
In Mexico, the Secretary of Economy, Marcelo Ebrard accumulates arguments and data that supports American integration.
The Mexican government, in a video that shows and recounts the trips of the raw material and the preparation of a piston between Mexico, the United States and Canada until its final use by the automotive industry, tries to illustrate the deep integration of production and marketing in automotive sector among the 3 countries.
In the Mexican automotive industry they begin to calculate the potential negative effects. They warn that US imports could fall 15% from the tariffs of that country.
The national automotive industry has an estimated value for the year 2025, of 127 billion dollars. It could resent damage, even discouragement in investments.
Steel entrepreneurs estimate that Mexico exports from Mexico valued at 2 thousand 100 million dollars could be affected by tariffs.
Pharmaceutical companies are worried and ask not to be included in the US tariff policy.
The Government of Mexico, is focused on the attention of the US demands. The Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Juan Ramón de la Fuente with the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
And the Secretary of Economy, Marcelo Ebrard, prepares suitcases to meet with his counterparts, the secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnik and the commercial representative Jamieson Greer.
Mexico seeks to evade the power of Donald Trump’s firm.
I wish I achieve it. At the same time.
