U.S. trade officials met with counterparts in Mexico on Monday, as the two countries discuss the future of the trade pact that binds them.
The meeting comes ahead of an upcoming summer review of the USMCA trade agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada. That trade treaty replaced NAFTA six years ago and keeps many of the goods that flow between the three countries tariff-free.
U.S. Trade Rep. Jamieson Greer said at a congressional budget hearing ahead of the trip to Mexico that one of the administration’s goals remains bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States.
“Indeed, there’s continued offshoring toward Mexico,” Greer said.
He said he and his Mexican counterpart will discuss one key issue — the rules governing how much of a Mexican product has to be made in the country for it to fall under the trade agreement.
Those rules are meant to stop Mexico from becoming a backdoor for countries like China to import products into the United States tariff-free.
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The constitutional reform requires presidential and gubernatorial candidates in Mexico to renounce any non-Mexican citizenship. -
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Dr. Jesús Maximiano Verduzco Soto turned himself in to authorities in Hermosillo after evading arrest for months. -
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In Sonora, mothers comb through the desert to try to find the remains of their missing children, even as Mexican officials say the number of homicides across the country is in decline.
