Arturo Sánchez Jiménez and Alma Muñoz
La Jornada newspaper
Saturday, February 1, 2025, p. 3
Before Donald Trump’s confirmation that 25 percent tariffs will enter into force to the goods of Canada and Mexico, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo said yesterday that her government is ready to deal with any scenario. However, he insisted that the dialogue with the US administration is maintained.
We are going to wait, as I have always said, with a cold head, making decisions
he declared at his morning conference. “Have Plan a, Plan b, Plan c for what the United States government decides. It is very important that the people of Mexico know that we are always going to defend the dignity of our people, respect for our sovereignty and a dialogue as equals without subordinations, ”he added hours before Trump reaffirmed that the tariffs will impose.
Sheinbaum Pardo said that if the rates are established Obviously put aside
The Mexico Treaty, the United States and Canada (T-MEC) and added that this is one of the scenarios contemplated by its government.
In this regard, the Secretary of Economy, Marcelo Ebrard, said: We have all the dispute solution mechanisms
of the T-MEC.
Described the imposition of tariffs of Strategic error
Trump, because the measure would impact the cost of living in the neighboring country, more expensive products such as cars, computers, televisions and refrigerators, of which Mexico is the main supplier.
If this rate was imposed, its consumers will face higher prices in all sectors. This impact will be felt in millions of American families overnight
he stressed.
He explained that Mexico is the main supplier of vehicles and auto parts, so the rates would affect 12 million families that will have to pay 25 percent more for these products from one day to the other. It would also impact about 40 million families that acquire computers made in Mexico, as they will face an extra cost of 7 billion dollars, he said.
Since Mexico is the second world exporter of televisions and screens and the main supplier of the United States, Trump rates would impact 32 million families with an additional disbursement of 2 billion dollars a year. In addition, one in three refrigerators sold in the US market comes from Mexico, which will make the cost for at least 5 million families with an extra expenditure of almost one billion dollars.
Ebrard added that Americans will also see daily consumption products in all supermarkets, such as fruits, vegetables, meat and beer, which are imported from Mexico, and warned that these increases will be more evident in states and cities with greater consumption of goods Mexican, such as California, Texas, Florida and Arizona.
Highlighting the strength of the national economy, Sheinbaum Pardo and Ebrard noted that the country has a portfolio of almost 2 thousand private investment projects in the country, which total approximately 217 billion dollars and that will allow strengthening employment in Mexico.
And that means the investment already scheduled: 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030, by the companies we are working with
he added.
In this regard, he affirmed that the strategy of the Government of Mexico is based on attending closely to companies interested in investing in order to know their expectations and requirements to consider their projects in the country.
