Mexico Ready to Respond if US Decides to Tax Goods Sputnik | |
go to original February 25, 2017 |
Mexico warns US of retaliatory tariffs over Trump's border wall (Euronews)
The Mexican government is ready to respond with similar measures if the United States imposes a 20-percent tax on goods from Mexico in order to pay for the border wall, Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray has announced.
"Probably the answer would not be to impose a generalized tax on all imports coming from the United States because that would hurt the Mexican consumer… we would do it selectively, as it was once done," Videgaray said in a Friday interview with Radio Formula.
The Trump administration has suggested imposing a 20 percent tax on US imports from Mexico to pay for the border wall.
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