The head of Mexico’s Ministry of Economy (SE), Marcelo Ebrard, stated that Canada remains in the negotiations for the revision of the Mexico-United States-Canada Agreement (T-MEC), despite the differences with the President of the United States, Donald Trump.
The latest friction between the U.S. and Canada occurred in late October, when Trump announced an additional 10% tariff on Canada in retaliation for a television ad promoted by the Ontario provincial government that used statements by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan against the tariffs.
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“Canada is still present, even in APEC they had a meeting; the prime minister was there, he had a meeting with President Trump, and of course they are going to be present,” Ebrard said Tuesday in an interview with the Radio Fórmula network.
The treaty is due for review in 2026, and since Trump’s return to the White House in January of this year, prominent Canadian politicians suggested the idea of abandoning it and negotiating bilaterally with the United States a trade agreement that would not include Mexico, considering the Latin American country to be the source of the region’s economic problems.
Trump himself, in early October, said during a meeting with Carney at the White House that “we could renegotiate it (the T-MEC) and that would be good, or we could make different agreements. If we want to, we can make different deals. We can make individual agreements that are better for the countries.”
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum responded that the trade agreement “is law” in the three nations, so “any change would imply a thorough review”.
On how the negotiations with the United States are going, Ebrard said that they are in the final stage and Mexico has an advantageous position, thanks to the fact that “fortunately we have most of our exports without tariffs and a series of discounts, especially in the automotive industry, which allow us to say that we are in better circumstances than many of the competing countries”.
Ebrard considered that the “core point” that Mexico wants to achieve “is that the treaty can be reviewed in 2026, to review that is not to discuss the entire treaty because we would not finish, besides the US has elections next year and we want Mexico’s position to always be the best in relation to other competitors, that is our main concern”.
The revision of the T-MEC is scheduled for 2026, after being announced at the beginning of 2025, in the midst of the global tariff war unleashed by U.S. President Donald Trump.
The agreement was signed in 2018 during Trump’s first term and implemented on July 1, 2020 to replace the previous North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
With information from EFE
