Mexico’s president is reaffirming her commitment to the free trade agreement that binds her country, Canada and the United States — as those two countries’ leaders suggest possible distance.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum dismissed the possibility of a breakdown in trade talks Thursday, after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a speech this week suggesting countries should distance themselves from the United States.
President Donald Trump called the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade agreement between the three countries irrelevant this month. It’s the same treaty his own administration negotiated during his first term to replace NAFTA.
Sheinbaum told reporters she believes the treaty remains “convenient” to the three countries.
“We’re going to work so that it doesn’t fall apart,” Sheinbaum said of the treaty.
The treaty is up for a review period this summer, which could turn into a re-negotiation of the agreement that keeps many goods traded between the three countries tariff-free.
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Audiences on each side of the U.S.-Mexico border watched the same movie just feet from each other during the Film on the Fence event. -
The U.S. indictment of 10 former and current Sinaloa public officials last month was a major escalation of tension between Mexico and the United States. -
The small, electric vehicles are designed to be accessible to a domestic market in Mexico. -
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum called the recent reports from CNN and the New York Times “a fiction the size of the universe.” -
The Nogales International Film Festival will screen movies directly in front of the border wall, so people on either side can experience films together.
