Why South America’s Trade With China Could Blunt Trump’s Tariff Edge

Graph via Reuters

A new investigation by Reuters shows that the Trump administration’s threat of tariffs is mostly successful with a small number of Latin American countries mainly exporting to the U.S., like Mexico and Colombia.

In contrast, most South American exports to the United States have remained flat over the last decade, while exports to China have doubled. Many of these are agricultural commodities that replicate what China imports from key Republican states.

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