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Mexico did not impose the retaliatory tariffs described in early February 2025. Reuters reported that Mexican officials were preparing a possible plan with rates of 5%, 10% or 20% for selected U.S. goods, including several farm products. But the reported rates and product list were not an official Mexican tariff schedule, and a later Congressional Research Service account says Mexico neither published a target list nor imposed the tariffs.
Which U.S. agricultural products were reportedly at risk?
Reuters reported on February 2, 2025, citing people familiar with the matter, that Mexico was considering possible tariffs on U.S. pork products, cheese, apples, grapes, potatoes and cranberries. The same report named bourbon whiskey and manufactured steel and aluminum, so the potential package was not limited to agriculture. Farm Policy News’ reproduction of Reuters’ report is the source for the proposed products and rates.
The report described possible rates of 5%, 10% or 20%. It did not establish which rate would apply to which product, whether every named product would be selected, or that Mexico had finalized or published a list. President Claudia Sheinbaum had not publicly specified the products in her initial response.
Was there an official Mexican tariff schedule?
No. The product list and rate range were reported as preparations under consideration, based on unnamed sources—not announced as adopted policy. That distinction matters: a proposed tariff is not an import charge unless it is formally adopted and takes effect. The Congressional Research Service’s later account says Mexico had not released a target list or imposed retaliatory tariffs.
What happened after the threat?
On February 3, 2025, Mexico’s presidency announced that the U.S. tariffs would be paused for one month and that the two governments would establish working groups on security and trade. The Mexican presidency’s announcement records that pause and the planned working groups.
In its later review, CRS said Sheinbaum indicated Mexico would prefer to avoid reciprocal tariffs while not ruling them out. It also reported that Mexico had not published a product list or imposed the retaliatory tariffs. The reported contingency therefore did not become an enacted tariff measure in the account reviewed here.
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Later developments do not establish that the reported 2025 plan took effect. In May and July 2026, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced bilateral negotiating rounds connected to the first USMCA joint review, with agriculture among the subjects. Those talks are subsequent trade discussions, not evidence of Mexican retaliation under the earlier proposal. See the May 2026 announcement and the July 2026 announcement.
A June 2026 witness statement to the House Agriculture Committee described Mexican investigations involving U.S. pork and apple exports in the context of U.S. trade remedies concerning Mexican tomatoes. That is later, attributed testimony about a separate dispute—not confirmation that pork or apples were tariffed under the 2025 proposal. The witness statement should be read in that context.
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The White House also announced a separate 2026 U.S. Section 301 action concerning forced-labor import prohibitions, including a 10% rate for Mexican goods and exemptions for certain products. That was a U.S. action, not Mexico’s reported retaliatory plan. The White House fact sheet describes that separate measure.
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