Mexico is planning to carry out a “cleaning” operation across the country to combat the flow of illegal merchandise entering the country mainly from China, according to the Economy Ministry.

“The searches will help determine the size of these illegal flows of goods entering the country,” said Luis Enrique Vazquez, technical secretary for the ministry’s foreign trade office, in a phone interview. “They will enable us to trace and quantify the volumes we are dealing with, that seem to be huge.”

The US and Canada have voiced concerns that Mexico’s trade practices with China are not aligned with its North American allies.

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