Francisco González, executive president of the National Autopartes Industry (INA), said that tariff metavers are generating bureaucracy when exporting to the United States.
“Today we face the metaverso of tariffs, the application of tax to the same product for lack of clarity in the rules of suede a new world order of trade,” said the businessman within the framework of the XXIII International Congress of the Automotive Industry (CIIAM), organized by the National Auto Part industry.
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“The whole chain grabs us many times with a brutal bureaucracy to be able to determine the tariff,” said the representative.
“Today it is difficult to establish what is the tariff that is going to touch a piece once for aluminum, copper, IEPA or the concept of 232,” he said.
“It is complicated because the same piece depends how to qualify, just as it can face different moments of the tariff,” he said.
He pointed out that at the moment the collection of the tariff is not something that delay a production line negatively, “but if you have to get more hands to what does not make you competitive.”
The tariff’s metavers “lowers competitiveness, lowers productivity for being seeing a role, instead of seeing quality,” he said.
So that there is no problem with exports to the United States requires clear and simple rules, he pointed out.
“When we see the trade balance of Mexico before the United States there is a deficit of 100 billion dollars for Americans, but if we take into account the value that both countries contribute is reduced to 19 billion dollars, that is, almost 7 times less,” he said.
Between July 2024 and July 2025, Mexico sent 83 percent of its exports to the United States, of which 137 billion were from the automotive industry. The United States and Mexico produce 15 million vehicles and 460 billion dollars of auto parts a year, he explained.
He explained that the relationship of the United States and Mexico is not only about buying and selling, which is manufactured in Mexican factories incorporates much of the American effort.
74 percent of the inputs of vehicles that are manufactured in Mexico come from the United States, he said.
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Less than 5 percent of auto parts in Mexico depend on Asia suppliers, which shows that “the United States and Mexico trade and produce together.”
There are 55 border crossings that mobilize 70 percent of trade between the United States and Mexico and 90 percent of the internet traffic pass through cross -border cables, which support financial and logistics operations in real time, he said.
According to the president of the INA, Mexico is the main destination of Texas natural gas, since it receives 64 percent of liquefied natural gas exports
The automotive sector represents 20 percent of manufacturing jobs in Mexico and 11 percent of industrial production with 2,000 plants in operation
“If this operation will move outside the country, Mexico would lose 8.6 percent of employment, which could promote greater migration,” he said.
He said that at the same time the United States will stop exporting 3 thousand 200 million dollars a year due to the fall in the demand for goods.
