Report: Texas would be the state hardest hit from a trade war with Mexico

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A recent study by WalletHub shows which states would be most impacted by Trump's 20 percent tariff on Mexican goods.

Click through to see which states would be the most and least affected by a Mexico-U.S trade war. less Trump's trade war



A recent study by WalletHub shows which states would be most impacted by Trump's 20 percent tariff on Mexican goods.

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Long before Nov. 8, Mexico made it very clear they would not pay for President Donald Trump's proposed border wall, raising questions about how the new administration would convince or coerce our southern neighbor into paying up.

In late January, after a string of tweets that lead to a tense relationship with our chief trading partner, Trump floated the idea of imposing a 20 percent tax on all imports from Mexico -- a cost that experts said would be almost certainty be passed on to American consumers.

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While some Rust Belt Republicans cheered, Texans, who export more to Mexico than any other state by a large margin, had mixed views of Trump's solution.

Many unanswered questions about proposed "border adjustment" tax — JohnCornyn (@JohnCornyn) January 26, 2017

WalletHub, a data analysis site, recently ranked the states that would be hit the hardest by a potential trade war. The study used the number of jobs, imports and exports derived from Mexico-Texas trade in order to arrive at its rankings.

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Click through above to see the states that would be hit the most and least by a trade war with Mexico.