Washington.- In the midst of trade disputes between North American countries, the United States Trade Representative, Katherine Taiwill travel to Mexico next week to meet with Mexican and Canadian authorities, his office reported.
Tai will be on July 6 and 7 in Cancun participate in the Third Free Trade Commission with Mexico’s Secretary of Economy, Raquel Buenrostroand Canada’s Minister of International Trade and Exports, marie ng.
During this meeting, they will review the progress made in the implementation of the trade agreement between Mexico, the United States and Canada (USMCA), which came into effect in 2020, and will address ways to “further facilitate the economic growththere investment and the competitiveness of North America.
The three officials will also hold bilateral meetings with each other, likely to discuss the litigation and commercial litigation open under the USMCA.
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That same month, the government of Joe Biden requested Mexico to reconsider the alleged violation of the labor law and of freedom of association in a textile factory in Aguascalientes and in a mine in Zacatecas, considering that violates T-MEC covenants.
Moreover, last week Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that will prohibit the import in your country of transgenic maize despite protests from Washington.
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Since the implementation of the treaty in 2020, at least 17 trade disputessome of them quite famous.
The United States and Canada have come together, for example, to open a round of consultations to determine whether the energy policy of mexico it discriminates against American and Canadian companies.
While Mexico and Canada jointly denounced the formula used by the United States to determine whether a vehicle has enough components made in North America.
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