Only a couple years ago, manufacturers were fighting for space to relocate their operations to Monterrey, an industrial city in Mexico’s northeast, as they sought to move closer to the US and its vast consumer market.

President Donald Trump’s long-threatened tariffs against Canada and Mexico went into effect Tuesday, putting global markets on edge and setting up costly retaliations by the United States’ North Ameri

The government crackdown on organized crime intensified after the Trump administration threatened retribution unless Mexico halted the supply of fentanyl into the United States, vowing high tariffs if the flow of migrants and drugs continued.