President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to levy tariffs as high as 25% on Mexico has left people on both sides of the border concerned about the impact it will have on the consumers, employees and businesses that rely on the Arizona-Mexico trade relationship.Mexico is Arizona’s single largest trading partner, with imports and exports between the two sides valued at $20 billion annually. Every year billions of dollars worth of agricultural products alone cross the southern border.Roads between the Mexican state of Sonora and Arizona are regularly packed with semitrucks, many travelling north full of fresh produce on its way to grocery store shelves in the United States.“This time of year, the vast majority of items are coming from Mexico. Tomatoes, squash, bell peppers, cucumbers. Mexico is supplying most of the country,” said Ben Johnson, president of Portland, Oregon-based Bridges Produce, which imports organic produce from farms in Mexico to sell in grocery stores in the United States.
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