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.
Avocados, vehicles, electronic goods, machinery, oil, medical and technical equipment, furniture, other agricultural products, gems and precious minerals, etc., etc.
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We can source all that here or elsewhere and provide US jobs.
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Seems to me we can either find other markets, deal fairly with all trade partners and grow our own economy to absorb some of the exports.
It’s about jobs, not just tax revenues. Working people buy stuff, pay taxes, the vendors they buy from pay taxes, etc.
The pie can expand. Less taken in some taxes, as promised, means more domestic economic activity.
You propose leaving jobs and manufacturing in Mexico, leaving Americans unable to purchase to so-called efficiently-produced goods while adding to the America citizens’ tax burden, in order to ‘save’ American manufacturers the cost of repatriation, which is to be lessened due to lowered corporate taxes.
Good luck selling that.