Trump threatens John Deere with 200% tariff if moves production to Mexico

Trump threatens John Deere with 200% tariff if moves production to Mexico

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event at a farm, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024, in Smithton, Pennsylvania. Alex Brandon | AP Former President Donald Trump on Monday threatened John Deere with a 200% tariff if the agricultural manufacturer moves production to factories in Mexico. “They’ve announced a few days ago … Read more

68-year-old retiree pays $460 a month to live by a lake in Mexico

68-year-old retiree pays 0 a month to live by a lake in Mexico

My mornings in the small village of San Antonio Tlayacapan, Mexico, are filled with birds. There’s the soft cooing of doves, the chirping of kiskadees, and the iconic shrieking of roosters, which begins not at sunrise (go figure) but hours before.  It’s a far cry from Mazatlán, the city on Mexico’s Pacific coast where I … Read more

China to Mexico trade ‘back door’ booms in Trump, Biden tariff era

China to Mexico trade ‘back door’ booms in Trump, Biden tariff era

A freight train carries cargo shipping containers in the El Paso Sector along the US-Mexico border between New Mexico and Chihuahua state on December 9, 2021 in Sunland Park, New Mexico. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images New data shows a surge in trade between China and Mexico at a time of tough … Read more

Trump trade policies will fuel freight rates and consumers pay price

Trump trade policies will fuel freight rates and consumers pay price

A cargo ship is sailing towards the docking of a foreign trade container terminal in Qingdao Port, Shandong province, in Qingdao, China, on June 7, 2024. Costfoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Trade analysts are warning that new tariffs threatened by former President Donald Trump, which he doubled down on during Tuesday night’s presidential debate, … Read more

What Cancún’s Tourists Don’t See Is a Sprawling Concrete Jungle

What Cancún’s Tourists Don’t See Is a Sprawling Concrete Jungle

This story originally appeared on WIRED en Español and has been translated from Spanish. The wide mowed lawns and leafy trees, the sports fields shining under their illuminated lights, the bouncy castles in the children’s play areas—especially the bouncy castles—are what Celia Pérez Godínez envies. These are the trappings of the wealthy neighborhood she travels … Read more

Flashpoints identified in Africa, Asia and the Middle East

Flashpoints identified in Africa, Asia and the Middle East

A ship stranded in the growing salt flats of Lake Urmia in Iran. Hamed | Afp | Getty Images The diminishing availability of water resources across the globe should be considered one of the most pressing environmental security challenges of the century. That’s the view of one military geography and environmental security specialist, who recently … Read more

Mexico freezes relations with U.S., Canadian embassies in judicial reform spat – National

Mexico freezes relations with U.S., Canadian embassies in judicial reform spat – National

The Mexican government has paused its relationship with the U.S. and Canadian embassies in the country, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday, after their ambassadors criticized a proposed judicial reform that he backs. “There is a pause,” Lopez Obrador said in a press conference, clarifying that the freeze was with the embassies and not with the countries. The … Read more

How Chinese EV automakers are winning in Mexico

How Chinese EV automakers are winning in Mexico

Blocked from the U.S. by tariffs, Chinese electric vehicle makers have looked elsewhere to sell their high-tech cars. But as Mexico has emerged as a hot spot for Chinese EVs, Washington officials worry the country may be used as a “backdoor” to the U.S. market.   Last year, China was the leading car supplier to Mexico, … Read more

We drove Chinese EVs to see why rival automakers are worried

We drove Chinese EVs to see why rival automakers are worried

Trade groups say Chinese electric vehicles pose an “existential threat” to the U.S. auto industry. China currently makes about one out of every three of the world’s new vehicles, and it has the capacity to make even more, according to research firm Dunne Insights. But faced with a growing preference for hybrids at home and … Read more

US ambassador visits Mexican state to expedite avocado inspections

US ambassador visits Mexican state to expedite avocado inspections

ARMANDO SOLIS, Associated Press Updated: Jun 25, 2024 / 04:58 AM CDT U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar shakes hands with Michoacan state Governor Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla during their joint news conference at the governor’s office in Morelia, Mexico, Monday, June 24, 2024. U.S. government inspections of avocados and mangoes will gradually resume in the … Read more