MEXICO CITY: The bustling, cheap-labor assembly plants that dot the Mexican side of the US border are booming, but President Donald Trump's stances on taxes and trade have them worried.

Trump wants to renegotiate the NAFTA trade agreement with Mexico and Canada, which has been in force for a generation, and his Republican Party has floated tax reform ideas that would hurt Mexican companies.

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