USTR official: U.S. assessing Mexico’s new tariffs as steel talks continue

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is evaluating whether higher tariffs and updated regulations recently issued by Mexico could help address Washington’s concerns that third-country producers are routing steel and aluminum products through the country to evade U.S. tariffs, according to a senior USTR official. At the same time, the official told Inside U.S. Trade , the U.S. is continuing to press Mexico to reinstitute an export monitoring system to manage what U.S. officials have described as a surge...