Mexico (Office of the US Trade Representative)

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U.S. goods and services trade with Mexico totaled an estimated $615.9 billion in 2017 ... Mexico is currently our 3rd largest goods trading partner with $557.6 billion in total (two way) goods trade during 2017 ...

https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/americas/mexico

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1. What would happen in Arizona if Trump closed the border?

Russ Wiles and Rafael Carranza, Arizona Republic
Published 8:20 p.m. MT March 29, 2019

... Mexico is Arizona's largest trading partner. The state sends 30 percent of all its exports to one country, Mexico. That amounts to $682 million in exports over a recent three-month period, according to research by the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona.

Mexico exports more to the U.S. border states than it does to the rest of the world combined, excluding the United States, according to a report by the Wilson Center, a think tank on global issues.

The Nogales-Mariposa port of entry brings in an enormous amount of winter fruit and vegetables to the United States ...

Mexicans regularly cross the border to go shopping, especially in the southern part of Arizona, before returning home ...

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/border-issues/2019/03/29/what-happens-in-arizona-if-trump-closes-border/3315848002/

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2. U.S.-Mexico Economic Relations

Updated March 26, 2019
Congressional Research Service
https://crsreports.congress.gov
RL32934

... Mexico is the United States’ third-largest trading partner, while the United States is, by far, Mexico’s largest trading partner. Mexico ranks third as a source of U.S. imports, after China and Canada, and second, after Canada, as an export market for U.S. goods and services. The United States is the largest source of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Mexico ...

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL32934.pdf

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3. Well, pResident SHITLER has to learn from hard knocks - nothing in the WarFucks College curriculum!1