Posted on 09/12/2023 2:18:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Mexico has overtaken China as America’s biggest trading partner as the US looks to import goods closer to home and minimize its reliance on geopolitical rivals, according to Bloomberg.
America’s southern neighbor made up 15% of US imports in July, compared to 14.6% from China, according to data analyzed by the outlet.
The number of Chinese shipments in July were at their lowest level since the start of COVID, dropping by 14.5% in July compared to the same month last year, according to data released by Beijing last month. The findings also showed that imports fell by 12.4% as the ruling Communist Party struggles to dig out of its post-pandemic funk.
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How about make it here.
Maybe they’re now counting illegals as “imports”.
How many Chinese factories are in Mexico and South America?
This year I have discovered tiny insects in imported sheets, blankets, linens, mattresses and clothing articles.
Buy American.
mexico over canada???
They should redo the arithmetic after shifting fentanyl from the Mexico column to the China one. Bet that would change first place.
Canada is a tiny country, and most of the population is close to the U.S. The population of Mexico is more than three times the population of Canada. Plus, in a lot of way, Mexico has culturally more in common with of U.S.?
fine by me.
Anything we can do to strengthen the economies of nations south of our border is better for everyone...
trading partner?
More like they ship in illegals and we are stuck with them.
illegals are probably the biggest amount of stuff we get from mexico and cost us the most too!
I don’t call that trade.
Not really. The reality is we create laws to pull in people and reward them for that, and it damages Mexico.
If we wanted to end illegal immigration, we would change our laws not to incentivize illegal immigration. All the walls in the world will not stop illegal immigration, as long as our laws incentivize it.
I wonder how much that 'trade' is worth?
It is not as simple as those numbers would make it seem
My wife works for a Japanese company with offices here and they own plants in Mexico which produce goods made from Chinese raw materials and then export them here to the US.
Well,I have seen more taco trucks than poutine wagons, but linguistically the English/French influence on Canada is more similar to our Founding influences.
Now, if you are from the Southern tier of States which have closer contact with Mexico, (where conquistadors roamed instead of fur trappers) YMMV.
Maybe they’re now counting illegals as “imports”.
One of Mexico's chief exports was illegals to the US.
One of Mexico's chief imports was money from those illegals in the US.
How much of the imports consist of people and fentanyl? How do they appraise that?
Well, it’s a shame that it’s not doing mehico any good, considering that the US federal government is hell bent upon empowering criminals to profit off of this and illicit trade.
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