Can you list Mexico’s trade leverage? Avocados?
Trump is rewarding repatriation of manufacturing and promising border taxes. Advantage: USA
We give:
foreign aid
illegals send money home.
corrupt LEO and judges have allowed drug and human trafficking to continue. Mexican elites profit.
US tourism is easy, visa-free and cheap, to date.
We buy Mexican produce. Give CA farmers water and they can grow it here. Raise wages and Americans can work what fields aren’t mechanized.
I love year-round produce, but I’ll pay more if it furthers border security and I’m an admitted cheapskate.
Avocados, vehicles, electronic goods, machinery, oil, medical and technical equipment, furniture, other agricultural products, gems and precious minerals, etc., etc.
Trump is rewarding repatriation of manufacturing and promising border taxes. Advantage: USA
The U.S. exports about $230 billion worth of goods to Mexico, which would have the same border taxes placed on them.
Repatriating manufacturing would cost U.S. companies billions. It'll be cheaper for them to keep manufacturing in Mexico and pass the border tax along to consumers.