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Guajardo takes on Trump's linkage of steel and aluminum tariffs and NAFTA, says Mexico should be excluded

March 5, 2018 at 10:10 AM
Mexico's economy minister has hit back at President Trump's tweeted linkage of steel and aluminum tariffs to a new NAFTA, saying Mexico should be excluded from the remedies. On Twitter, Ildefonso Guajardo – Mexico's political lead in the NAFTA talks, who is set to close a seventh round of negotiations in Mexico City today – said his country “shouldn't be included in steel & aluminum tariffs. It's the wrong way to incentivize the creation of a new & modern #NAFTA.”...


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