Be careful Mexico. You are a puny neighbor.
Now santa will never bring me a ball-in-a-cup
There is one strategy that Mexico could pursue, and that is to trade products to the United States that come ONLY from companies that are either indigenous corporations of Mexico, or as partnerships set up with investment from nations OTHER than the United States. But moving production from the US to Mexico, while shutting down production here in the US, would trigger the tariff to be applied to the product re-entering the US.
Ford may build cars in Mexico, but they could then only be for domestic consumption by Mexicans, or exported to countries OTHER than the US. Say like Argentina, or Brazil, or Ecuador, or even China.
Or, Mexico could reform its land ownership system (based on old Spanish land grants) to allow title in fee simple to be held by individuals, and not as long-term land leases. This would go far to enable the Mexicans to hold on to a population that would become a much more actively participating factor of their republic than is now the case, and assist greatly in the long-term economic development of Mexico, as a viable capitalistic state. Mexico is richly endowed with considerable natural resources, that are not being adequately developed, nor will they allow anyone else to come in and develop these resources.
The sound of a country panicking.
Sounds real similar to the Democrats in Congress and the mainstream media and most of Europe and Hollywood types and…