Trump's election has created uncertainty for Latin American trade. If NAFTA is renegotiated or terminated as Trump suggested, Mexico would be most impacted as 80% of its exports go to the US. This could lower Mexico's growth from 2.5% to just over 2%. Currencies in leading South American economies like Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, and Chile have also dropped against the dollar by 4-11% since the election due to uncertainty over Trump's trade policies. Experts say Latin American economies will fluctuate until Trump's actual policies are clear.

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3. NAFTA in the
crosshairs
 Of all Latin American countries, Mexico
received most attention from the
president-elect during the campaign,
both in the context of immigration and
trade policy.
 Even in the event of a ‘benign’
administration with no renegotiation of
NAFTA, Control Risks’ joint-venture
partner Oxford Economics predicts a
fall in expected growth for Mexico in
2017 from 2.5% to just over 2% on the
back of the falling peso, rising inflation
and greater fiscal pressure that
uncertainty over Mexico-US economic
ties will engender.

4. Why does it matter so much to
Mexico?
 Why does it matter so much to Mexico? 80% of Mexican exports go to the
US, and so campaign pledges to renegotiate or even tear up NAFTA cast a
significant pall over the economy.

5. How the Trump presidency could impact
South American currency markets
 In Brazil, the region’s largest economy,
the real has fallen more than 9% against
the U.S. dollar since election day.
 The currencies in the next three biggest
economies — Argentina, Colombia and
Chile — have dropped between 4% and
8%.

6.  Much attention has been paid to
how a Trump administration
could damage the economy in
Mexico, where Trump has
sown fears by threatening to
tear up the North American
Free Trade Agreement and
clamp down on immigration.
The Mexican peso has reacted in
kind, dropping 11% the day
after the election and an
additional 1% since then.

7. Predictions
 “Throughout Latin America, we'll see a
lot of fluctuations in economies until it's
clear what Trump is actually going to
do," said Jason Marczak, deputy director
of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America
Center, part of the Atlantic Council think
tank in Washington. “Donald Trump is
unlike any other president we've seen
before, so it's not clear if he will govern
like he campaigned or completely
differently.”

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