No. of Recommendations: 7
Total trade (imports + exports) with Mexico in 2021: ~$670Bn.
Total trade (imports + exports) with Mexico in 2025: $872Bn. (+30% in 4 years).
According to the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Trade Representative, the numbers went from total trade of $660 billion to $872 billion. Close enough for government work.
In the first 3 of those years (2022, 2023, 2024) it went from (let’s use your starting number to be conservative) $670 billion to $838 billion. That’s an average increase of $56 billion a year.
In 2025, the number went up $34 billion.
Amazing how when you keep talking, things can work out.
If your analysis is correct, Democrats did a much better job of talking than the Republicans have done.