WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican governmental prospect Donald Trump on Monday claimed he would use a 200% toll on John Deere imports if the farming devices firm relocates manufacturing to Mexico, as prepared.
“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 occasion on farming and China kept 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 year, the farming devices maker revealed that it was giving up some workers in the American Midwest and enhancing its manufacturing ability in Mexico, a choice that has actually distressed employees and some politicians.
Trump has often claimed he would certainly put car manufacturers that relocate their manufacturing to Mexico with 200% tolls, however this seems the very first time he has actually expanded that danger to a farming devices maker.
A rep for John Deere did not promptly react to an ask for remark.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Gram Slattery in Washington; Editing by Caitlin Webber and Chizu Nomiyama)
