Mexico to Trump: We Don’t Need You, You Need Us
Mexico to Trump: We Don’t Need You, You Need Us
"If you try to break that connection, then all economies suffer,” says AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth on U.S.-Mexico ties in view of Trump's trade policy.
President-elect Donald Trump has convinced air-conditioner-maker Carrier not to move an Indiana plant to Mexico. Mexico’s reaction so far: You can keep it.
“The US is not the world,” Jaime Rodríguez, governor of the northern state of Nuevo León, told Mexican radio broadcaster Radio Fórmula(link in Spanish.) “We have a very strong relationship with the US, but we don’t depend on them. They should depend on us.”
Nuevo León is where the new Carrier facility, an expansion of an existing one in the Mexican state, was set to be located. The state had already signed all the necessary permits. But while Rodríguez lamented the change in plans, he said the cancelled deal is one of many that Nuevo León has hammered with foreign companies….
“If you try to break that connection, then all economies suffer,” says Eric Farnsworth, vice president of the Americas Society and Council of the Americas, an international business group….
