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The U.S. also gets foods like meat and fish from Mexico, according to Sharyn O’Halloran, professor of political economy at Columbia University, and Trump’s tariffs could drive up those prices too.
President-elect Donald Trump announced Monday he plans to impose a 25% tariff on all products coming into the U.S. from Mexico and Canada as one of his first acts back in the White House.
A related government intervention to price floor, which is also a price control, is the price ceiling; it sets the maximum price that can legally be charged for a good or service, with a common example being rent control. A price ceiling is a price control, or limit, on how high a price is charged for a product, commodity, or service.
Producer surplus (the area above the supply curve but below price) increases by area A, as domestic producers shielded from international competition can sell more of their product at a higher price. Government tax revenue is the import quantity (C2 − Q2) times the tariff price (Pw − Pt), shown as area C.
The move would violate a free-trade deal Trump championed in 2020, known as the U.S-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which called for duty-free imports among the three nations.
President Calderón opted for using price ceilings for tortillas that protect local producers of corn. This price control came in the form of a "Tortilla Price Stabilization Pact" between the government and many of the main tortilla producing companies, including Grupo Maseca and Bimbo, to put a price ceiling at MXN 8.50 per kilogram of tortilla. [6]
The goods trade deficit with Mexico alone increased more than 78% between 2020, the year the USMCA took effect, and the end of 2023. And the deficit with Canada grew by about 27%, according to the ...
A more recent objective of customs has been trade facilitation, which is the streamlining of processing of import and export of goods to reduce trade transaction costs. The contemporary understanding of the “trade facilitation” concept is based on the Recommendation No. 4 of UN/CEFACT “National Trade Facilitation Bodies”. [ 6 ]