Mexican steel and aluminium exports to the US are down because of tariffs, hurting local small businesses.
Mexican steel and aluminium exports to the US are down because of tariffs, hurting local small businesses.
By Chantal Flores
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Monterrey, Mexico – For nearly the whole year, only one of the five machines at a metal products workshop in Apodaca, Nuevo Leon, in northern Mexico, has been operational. The small business was forced to drastically reduce its production capacity after United States President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on steel and aluminium.
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