Relief at US-Mexico border after tariff climbdown

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Businesses and workers at the US-Mexico border in California expressed relief Saturday over the scrapping of planned tariffs which had threatened to deal a devastating blow to a region built on cross-frontier trade.

Cargo trucks including some carrying vehicles enter the US at the Otay Mesa port of entry at the US-Mexico border in San Diego, California on June 8, 2019.

“If tariffs had gone up, all the rates would go up,” said Rafael Toledo, a 61-year-old towing company employee, on his commute from Mexico early Saturday. But it was business as usual Saturday as a steady stream of freight vehicles passed through Otay Mesa’s sprawling inspection facility. “I don’t think it would affect me for work too much. We’re busy right now because it’s tomato season for another week,” he said.

Mexico is also California’s top export market — purchasing some 17 percent of all California exports — and was expected to impose retaliatory tariffs if no deal had been struck.

 

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