Department officials told a news conference Monday that the measure will affect about $2.4 billion in trade: 90 agricultural and industrial products from 40 U.S. states.
It did not name the products or specify the amount by which import tariffs will increase.
Activists in the United States had argued that Mexican trucks were unsafe, something Mexico denies.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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