Juan Pablo Pacheco, president of the Mexican Association of Cargo Agents (Amacarga), proposed to the Government of Claudia Sheinbaum collect tariffs on the United States if President Donald Trump impose tariffs on Mexican exports from February 1.
“If on February 1 the US government applies tariffs to our exports unilaterally and for political reasons, we will have to think about the various options that the TMEC allows us and consider from the application of mirror measures, to resort to article 31 in matters of dispute solution or even appeal to the World Trade Organization, ”said the businessman.
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He added that Mexico should not trust negotiation and diplomatic route in the relationship with the United States government, in case the Donald Trump administration fulfills its threat.
From Mexico you have to act with well -founded commercial protection measures, he considered.
“It would be necessary to correspond with well -founded commercial protection measures in case it fulfills its threat of imposing tariffs on Mexico this February first,” he recommended.
The business representative said they are crucial days for Mexico to exhaust the negotiation roads and prevent the United States government from resorting to a unilateral decision that seriously injures the relationship between the two countries and “could lead us to a commercial war We would all get losing. ”
Juan Pablo Pacheco considered that in case of a tariff measure of the Donald Trump government, among the options that “we could apply to correspond to unilateral actions, there would be the possibility that the Mexican government grants tax facilities to national companies to replace imports” .
There is also the option of diversifying markets and “stop supplying some American products to strengthen acquisitions from Latin American countries, Europe and Asia.”
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“It can be a good time to think about replacing some imports from the United States, through stimuli to national suppliers and diversification of acquisitions of Latin American, European and Asian products,” he said.
The 450 cargo agents affiliated with Amacarga mobilize 85 thousand tons of industrial supplies and more than 2 million containers a year by the main entrance and exit ports in Manzanillo, Veracruz and Salina Cruz, according to institutional information.
