Trump's tariff identifies more questions and concerns for companies

Donald Trump's talk about the application of the new customs tariff to goods, one of the largest commercial partners in America, has sparked months of uncertainty for business owners.

On Saturday, the President achieved his threats, as he requested a new tax of 25 % on shipments from Mexico and Canada and raising the current definitions of goods from China by 10 %.

But this did not stop the questions.

“Is it for one day, is it a political flexible or is it something that will last for four years?” Nicholas asked the outfit, the PMK -based PM. It runs a company of 21 people importing and selling wine and lives, about 20 % of them come from Mexico.

Trump's orders in the movement's threats indicated by the president for months, as she hit shipments from the three best commercial partners in America, which together represents more than 40 % of the goods of about 3 meters imported by the United States every year.

Canadian oil and other “energy resources” will face 10 %. But otherwise, there will be no exceptions.

Trump said the definitions were aimed at protecting Canada and Mexico from promises to treat illegal immigration and drug trafficking.

The measures enter into force on February 4 and will remain in place “until the crisis is reduced”, according to the orders.

If the plans are not surprising, they still make a great blow to many companies, especially for those in North America. The three countries are strictly linked economically after decades of free trade under a treaty signed in the 1990s, known as NAFTA and were updated and renamed under the Trump administration to USMCA.

Mezcal's growth in the United States, which was brought by companies like Palazzi, was part of this shift.

Since 2003, the consumption of Tikila and Mezcal has doubled almost three times, increasing by more than 7 % every year, according to the Mattara Drink Council, a commercial group.

In general, since the 1990s, trade in lives between the United States and Mexico increased by more than 4000 percent, and the organization, which issued a statement after the president's announcement, warns that the definitions “will greatly harm all the three countries.”

For several months, Palazzi was providing nervous questions from its suppliers in Mexico, who are usually small companies owned by the family and may not survive if the long tariff.

If it is sticking, he said the tax is 25 % on the MEZCAL, Tequila and RUM bottles that bring it will increase the prices – sales will decrease.

“This will definitely affect the work negatively. But can you really plan?” He said. “Our strategy is defense, waiting and seeing and adapting to any madness you will reveal.”

Economists say that the blow from the definitions can push the economies of Mexico and Canada to stagnation.

Before announcing, Dan Kelly, President of the Canadian Federation of Independent companies, described the definitions looming on the horizon of the United States, and expected revenge, as “existential” for many of its members.

He said: “Look, we have obtained that the government should somehow respond … but at the same time we urge the government to be careful.” Try to fight the disease. “

“It will have an effect everywhere,” said Sophie Averennin, director of Diandes Diandos de Franc they in Mexico, noting that many Americans have Mexican alcoholic brands and beer already owned by a Belgian company.

Trump, who embraced the customs tariff as a tool to address the issues removed from trade, rejected concerns about any side damage to the economy in the United States.

But analysts have warned that measures will affect growth, increase prices and cost economics jobs – approximately 286,000, according to tax foundation estimates, including revenge.

Those who work in the field of alcohol said that the industry was already struggling to get out of the shadow of the epidemic and its rocks after inflation, which prompted many Americans to cut food and drinking.

Smaller companies, which usually have a financial pillow and the ability to swallow a 25 % sudden jump in the cost, will bear the burden of the turmoil.

The nine -people, which is taken by nine people, which is taking nine people, which is taken by nine people, which is taken by nine people in California, is brought in nine people, who takes nine people in California, to bring brands from Mexico such as Mal Bien and Lalocura .

“There is just a huge cost that will affect many people in other ways that pay more than a cocktail, which does not seem to be a tragedy.”

Farid Sanchez spent years pressure on expanding his business, Caliphberry, a small importer of California and distributor of Mexican spirits that take a resident cactus like Agua del Sol, and was recently working on deals in New York and Ilinoi.

But his potential partners started to hesitate with Trump's introductory talk last year.

Now, instead of expanding, he is considering selling his wines and may be closed. He said he had no little ability to absorb the jump in the costs and saw a little room for increasing prices in the current economy.

“25 % is not just something that we can realistically transfer to the consumer,” he said.

Sanchez said he believed Trump may use definitions as a negotiating tactic, and the tax may be short -term. However, for his company, the damage actually happened.