Donald Trump, United States Republican candidate for president, told farmers during a rally near Pittsburg that he will hit John Deere’s imports with a 200 per cent tariff if the company carries through with plans to make machinery in Mexico.
“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 said at an event held in western Pennsylvania.
“I am just notifying John Deere right now that if you do that, we are putting a 200 per cent tariff on everything that you want to sell into the United States.”
He also said he will hold Chinese President Xi to his promise to buy $50 billion worth of American farm products.
Trump got the deal when he was president from 2017 to 2021.
