{"id":74182,"date":"2025-09-12T14:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/12\/mexico-acting-under-coercion-to-constrain-china-with-50-tariff-on-cars-says-beijing"},"modified":"2025-09-12T14:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:53:10","slug":"mexico-acting-under-coercion-to-constrain-china-with-50-tariff-on-cars-says-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74182","title":{"rendered":"Mexico acting \u2018under coercion to constrain\u2019 China with 50% tariff on cars, says Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts say plan to raise tariffs on Chinese car imports is designed to placate Donald Trump and ward off US tariffs against Mexico<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s government has vowed to \u201cfirmly protect\u201d its interests against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/10\/trump-asks-eu-to-impose-high-tariffs-on-india-and-china-to-put-pressure-on-russia\">Mexico\u2019s plan to increase tariffs<\/a> on Chinese cars to 50%, a move Beijing said was made \u201cunder coercion to constrain China\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday Mexico said it intended to raise tariffs on car imports from China and other Asian countries from 20% to 50%, the maximum level allowed, in order to protect tens of thousands of manufacturing and industry jobs. However analysts suggested it was also designed to placate Donald Trump, who has been pressuring Mexico not to act as a \u201cback door\u201d for Chinese goods into the US.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/12\/mexico-acting-under-coercion-to-constrain-china-with-50-tariff-on-cars-says-beijing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts say plan to raise tariffs on Chinese car imports is designed to placate Donald Trump and ward off US tariffs against MexicoChina\u2019s government has vowed to \u201cfirmly protect\u201d its interests against Mexico\u2019s plan to increase tariffs on Chinese cars&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1648,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,1405,3279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-mexico","category-trump-tariffs"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74194,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74182\/revisions\/74194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}