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Why This US Election Will Be So Pivotal for Mexico
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The people of Mexico don’t get a vote in the US presidential election on Nov. 5, but they’ve got a lot riding on the outcome.
Mexico is far more reliant than the US on the $800 billion of annual trade across their common border. So its economy could suffer a gut punch if Donald Trump gets to fulfill a campaign pledge to impose sweeping tariffs on imports from the country and send millions of migrants back over the border.