[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 94 (Wednesday, June 5, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H4339]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       OPPOSING TARIFFS ON MEXICO

  (Mr. ALLRED asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ALLRED. Madam Speaker, I rise today to oppose the newly announced 
tariffs on Mexico by this administration.
  Hardworking Texans cannot be asked to bear the brunt of a costly and 
unnecessary trade war that would not solve our problems or address our 
broken immigration system.
  Our economy in Texas is powered by trade with Mexico. Texas is the 
number one State in the Nation for trade with Mexico.
  Last year alone, we imported $107 billion in goods from Mexico; and 
these tariffs, if taken to their natural end, could cost us $27 billion 
in Texas alone.
  I have met with Lennox, a heating and air-conditioning company, 
headquartered in my district in Richardson, Texas. They employ 8,000 
Americans, and they rely on subcomponents made in Mexico to manufacture 
products here in the U.S. Their business is put at risk by these 
tariffs.
  Toyota, another great company that is headquartered in north Texas, 
has said that these tariffs will cost them and their suppliers as much 
as $1 billion.
  I have heard from countless constituents about their concerns about 
what this will do to the Texas economy. This is unacceptable.
  I commend my colleagues in the Senate for contemplating action to 
stop these tariffs and plan to join them and support them in the House.

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