WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican governmental prospect Donald Trump on Monday claimed he would use a 200% toll on John Deere imports if the farming gadgets agency relocates manufacturing to Mexico, as ready.
“As you know, they’ve announced a few days ago that they are going to move a lot of their manufacturing business to Mexico,” Trump claimed at an event on farming and China saved in western Pennsylvania.
“I am just notifying John Deere right now that if you do that, we are putting a 200% tariff on everything that you want to sell into the United States.”
Earlier this yr, the farming gadgets maker revealed that it was giving up some employees within the American Midwest and enhancing its manufacturing potential in Mexico, a alternative that has truly distressed staff and a few politicians.
Trump has typically claimed he will surely put automobile producers that relocate their manufacturing to Mexico with 200% tolls, nevertheless this appears the very first time he has truly expanded that hazard to a farming gadgets maker.
A rep for John Deere didn’t promptly react to an ask for comment.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Gram Slattery in Washington; Editing by Caitlin Webber and Chizu Nomiyama)
