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Shipping from Mexico rushed before tariff threat lifted

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Before U. S. President Donald Trump on Friday abruptly suspended the threat of tariffs against Mexico, companies were rushing cars, appliances and construction materials across…
Before U. S. President Donald Trump on Friday abruptly suspended the threat of tariffs against Mexico, companies were rushing cars, appliances and construction materials across the border to beat Monday’s deadline.
Mexican-made tiles were piled up on the pavement next to a warehouse in New Mexico. A furniture factory and a jalapeno exporter fretted about a huge financial hit next week. And hundreds of semi-trailers carrying medical devices, televisions and Toyota pickups idled in line Friday at the truck crossing in Tijuana.
On Friday night, Trump tweeted that the tariffs were indefinitely suspended and that Mexico had agreed to take “strong measures” to stem the tide of Central American migrants heading through Mexico to the U. S.
Even before the tariff threat, Tijuana shipped $80 million worth of goods across the border every day.
But the tariff threat kicked the cross-border traffic into overdrive. Companies spent millions to hire freight carriers and secure warehouse space in the U. S. in a massive shift of inventory happening over a matter of days along the nearly 2,000-mile (3,200 kilometer) border.
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“You see these supply chain-managers on a tear, just bringing stuff in as fast as they can,” said Jerry Pacheco, president of the Border Industrial Association in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

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