Mexico’s exports to the US increased 6.3% in the first half of 2025

Mexico’s exports to the United States during the archetypal fractional of 2025 reached US $264.38 billion, a 6.3% summation implicit the aforesaid play past year, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday.

However, Mexico’s stock of the U.S. marketplace fell from 15.9% successful the archetypal six months of 2024 to 15% from January done June 2025 arsenic U.S. imports roseate astatine the planetary level. 

President Sheinbaum has been praised for responding calmly but firmly to U.S. President Trump’s tariff threats aimed astatine Mexico. The effect aft fractional a twelvemonth is that contempt those threats, Mexican exports to the U.S. person increased. (Graciela López/Cuartoscuro)

Mexican exports to the U.S. climbed contempt U.S. President Donald Trump’s menace to present caller 30% tariffs connected non-free-trade statement (USMCA) goods — a program that has been put connected clasp for 90 days pursuing a period of negotiations with Mexican President Sheinbaum’s cabinet.

Meanwhile, Mexico’s imports of U.S. products roseate by a importantly little complaint of 1.1% year-on-year successful the archetypal fractional of 2025, totaling $168.17 billion.

The differential successful Mexican exports and imports caused Mexico’s commercialized surplus with the United States to summation by 16.7% to $96.21 billion, edging person to that of China, which fell 12.4% year-over-year, to $111.48 billion. That surplus has been 1 of Trump’s pretexts for his assertive commercialized stance toward Mexico.

One of the takeaways from the caller commercialized negotiations betwixt the United States and Mexico was President Sheinbaum’s quality of abidance to Trump as regards the commercialized surplus, adjacent to the constituent of Mexico encouraging its nation’s companies to “buy American.”

In caller months, Trump has imposed 50% tariffs connected steel, aluminum and copper imports and 25% connected automobiles and definite car parts from Mexico. He besides introduced 25% tariffs connected non-USMCA products, which could summation to 30% unless Sheinbaum tin person the U.S. president not to rise the tariffs by the October deadline.

After different circular of palmy negotiations, what is Mexico doing to execute imperishable tariff relief?

Overall, U.S. export and import levels some accrued successful the archetypal fractional of the year, contempt the imposition of tariffs connected respective countries, which encouraged galore states to present reciprocal tariffs. U.S. planetary overseas purchases climbed by 12.7% to astir $1.8 trillion. Conversely, exports accrued by 5% to scope $1.08 trillion.

Even with its reduced marketplace share, Mexico remained the U.S.’s largest trading spouse successful the archetypal fractional of 2025, followed by Canada (13%) and China (7.9%).

With reports from El Economista