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Trump’s Mexico Tariffs Risk Economic Turmoil Ahead of 2020 Vote

  • Move disrupts talks with Democrats on USCMA, the new Nafta
  • White House yet again cites emergency power to bypass Congress
Trucks from Mexico enter a U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspection station at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in San Diego.

Trucks from Mexico enter a U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspection station at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in San Diego.

Photographer: Sam Hodgson/Bloomberg

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President Donald Trump’s threat to impose new tariffs on Mexico unless it stops the flow of migrants into the U.S. could cause massive economic disruption ahead of the 2020 elections and doom his signature renegotiation of a North American trade deal.