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    Ten U.S. Exports And Imports That Would Be Hurt If Trump Closes Mexico Border

    Apr 1, 2019, 01:01pm

    Ten U.S. Exports And Imports That Would Be Hurt If Trump Closes Mexico Border

    Ken Roberts Contributor


    Almost 90 percent of U.S. tomato imports come from Mexico.
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    If President Trump follows through on his threat to close the U.S.-Mexico border "this week," it would effect everyday things like imported tomatoes, 87% of which come from Mexico, as well as an important market for U.S. pork exports, 22% of which go to Mexico.

    It would also affect the budgets of border crossings stretching from Brownsville on the east coast of Texas to Otay Mesa, south of San Diego in California.


    Nowhere would that impact be felt more profoundly than in Laredo, Texas. It is the "port" that handles more U.S. exports than any of the 450-plus airports, seaports and border crossings in the nation and more total trade, including imports, than all but the Port of Los Angeles.


    In 2018, almost $235 billion in exports and imports crossed there, or 37% of the U.S. total with Mexico.


    While I'm no native, I know Laredo and the Texas border a little. My company, WorldCity, has been producing an annual Laredo TradeNumbers publication for more than a decade, I visit there almost every year, and I regularly speak at the annual Laredo Manufacturers' Symposium.


    A complete closure would also affect:


    • El Paso, Texas, the nation's 14th-busiest port;
    • Otay Mesa, the 27th;
    • Pharr, Texas, the 29th, where we also produce an annual TradeNumbers publication;
    • Eagle Pass, Texas, No. 31, where we are launching an Eagle Pass TradeNumbers product this year;
    • Santa Teresa, N.M., No. 37;
    • Nogales, Ariz., No 41;
    • Brownsville, No. 47;
    • And a number of other border crossings.


    Sixteen percent of all U.S. exports go to Mexico, second only to Canada, and 14% of U.S. imports, third behind China and Canada, are from there.

    But unlike trade with most nations, trade between Mexico and the United States almost always involves either a truck or a train.


    When looking at U.S. trade by air, Mexico accounted for just 1.5% in 2018. By ocean, it accounted for 7%.

    Why threaten to close the border? President Trump is increasingly frustrated at his inability to construct a wall along the Mexico-U.S. border, as promised when he was a candidate, and, now, at the number of Central Americans trying to enter the United States by crossing over the U.S.-Mexico border.


    Such a move, to close the border, would have a dramatic impact on the automotive and agricultural sectors, but affect others as well. It would upset intricate supply chains. It would affect the local economies, since local governments collect tolls when trucks exit the United States, and it would affect local businesses, from restaurants to hotels that serve the logistics community.


    It is not unreasonable to call a number of these communities, particularly the smaller ones, cities built by NAFTA, the treaty that could someday be usurped by the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement, currently bottled up in the Democractic-led U.S. House of Representatives.


    Here are a few of the leading U.S. exports, the overall value in 2018, the percentage bound for Mexico via border crossing, or almost exclusively that way, and Mexico's rank among the rest of the world's nations:

    Product U.S. total % to Mexico Mexico rank
    Motor vehicle parts $3.2 billion 37% First
    Engine parts $6.31 billion 35% First
    Soybeans $17.2 billion 10% Second
    Pork $4.58 billion 22% Second
    Fresh beef $3.39 billion 20% Second

    Here are a few of the leading U.S. imports from Mexico, in a similar format as for the exports:

    Product U.S. total % from Mexico Mexico rank
    Motor vehicles $174.95 billion 20% Fourth
    Motor vehicle parts $65.06 billion 35% First
    TVs, computer monitors 24.3 billion 37% Second
    Tomatoes $2.18 billion 87% First
    Strawberries, blueberries, etc. $2.78 billion 65% First


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    America would run out of avocados in weeks if Trump shuts border, growers warn

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    Trump threatened on Friday to close the Southern Border as early as this week if Mexico does not “immediately stop” the surge of illegal immigrants ...


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    We WILL survive if we do not have avocados!


    We WILL NOT survive if this unrelenting invasion of our country continues!

    CLOSE IT DOWN, TURN THEM AWAY

    THEY COST US OVER $133 BILLION A YEAR AND GROWING!

    CUT OFF THE FREEBIES NOW AND MAKE THEM SELF DEPORT!

    END BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP A.S.A.P.!
    ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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    If Mexico border is closed U.S. could have a produce shortage - B106
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    4 hours ago - If President Trump has his way by closing the border to Mexico, we could see a shortage of fruits vegetables and yes.... alcohol to the U.S..
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    MEXICO WILL BE CRIPPLED WITHIN 3 DAYS!

    SHUT IT DOWN!

    THEY NEED TO LOAD THEM UP AND SEND THEM THE HELL BACK!

    WE ARE NOT PLAYING GAMES ANYMORE!

    DISMISS THE 900,000 CASES ON BACKLOG AND SHUT THE ASYLUM PROGRAM DOWN EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY!

    TWO BILLION PEOPLE CANNOT SHOW UP ON OUR DOORSTEP!
    ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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    BLAME PELOSI AND SCHUMER!!!

    AMERICAN CITIZENS WANT THIS INVASION STOPPED AND SEND THEM RIGHT BACK!!!

    NO PATH TO STAY!
    ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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    Quote Originally Posted by Beezer View Post
    We WILL survive if we do not have avocados!
    True

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    Whoopty sh*t!!! We don't need their damn avocados.

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    Load them on buses and feed them their avocados on the way back home!
    ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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