US automakers warn Trump’s Mexico tariffs will push up car prices

Published May 31, 2019 8:11pm ET



The U.S. auto industry, already battered by slumping sales and layoffs, is bracing for higher costs after President Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on all imports from Mexico.

Trump announced Thursday he would slap punitive levies of 5% on all Mexican goods because of the country’s “passive cooperation in allowing” illegal immigrants and drugs to cross the southern border.

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