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Date of Publication: May 12
Year of Publication: 2020
Publication City: Washington, DC
Publisher: The Hill / Capitol Hill Publishing Corp.
Author(s): Duncan Wood , Christopher Sands
Over the past two weeks, the United States and Mexico have clashed over the closing of Mexican factories considered essential for providing components for U.S. industry. Despite significant pressure from the Trump administration, the Mexican government of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has thus far refused to open up factories and industries. Part of the explanation for this is that the components needed by U.S. industries are far from essential for Mexican national security or pandemic-management. A complicating factor is that, as the United States begins to reopen its economy and society, the coronavirus pandemic has yet to hit its peak south of the border.
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