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Steel rules for cars stall progress on the revised Nafta agreement
9-Dec-2019 Bloomberg
US rules-of-origin demand presents new challenge for Mexico. Requirements for cars are among most complicated USMCA topics.
Mexico offers compromise to end impasse with US over new Nafta
4-Dec-2019 Bloomberg
Mexico is willing to allow panels with US and Mexican judges to resolve labor disputes at specific factories but rejected requests to allow international inspectors to enter Mexican factories.
Singapore and Mexico affirm growing ties, sign raft of new agreements
23-Nov-2019 Straits Times
Singapore and Mexico signed a series of new cooperation agreements that underscored the multi-faceted nature of ties between the two countries, and pledged to conclude a regionwide trade deal by this year.
Brazil, Mexico begin trade talks amid Bolsonaro push for export deals
10-Sep-2019 Reuters
Brazil and Mexico have begun talks on a free trade deal, seeking to deepen commercial ties between the two largest economies in Latin America.
Turkey, Mexico begin free trade deal talks: Trade body
28-Aug-2019 Anadolu
Turkey’s Trade Ministry plans to visit Mexico in fall with larger business delegation.
Ecuador, Mexico initiate FTA negotiations
27-Aug-2019 Prensa Latina
This meeting will continue other rounds of negotiations in the first week of October in Quito, and the first week of November on Mexican soil, with the aim of reaching an agreement in 2021.
Mexico becomes first country to ratify new North American trade deal
26-Jun-2019 Washington Post
Mexico became the first country to ratify the new North American free-trade agreement, as its Senate voted overwhelmingly to approve the deal updating the rules for one of the world’s largest trade blocs.
Trump may ‘end up torpedoing’ the new NAFTA after threatening Mexico with a costly tariff
1-Jun-2019 CNBC
President Trump says an additional tariff on Mexican goods would address a “border crisis” that resulted in America being “invaded by hundreds of thousands of people.”
AMLO sends USMCA trade deal to Mexican Senate for ratification
1-Jun-2019 Bloomberg
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador sent the renegotiated Nafta deal for Senate approval, saying he’s optimistic the US Congress will also give it the green light.
Mexico trade official hits Dems for opposition to new NAFTA
6-May-2019 The Hill
Mexico’s top trade negotiator said he hopes congressional Democrats can “appreciate” what Mexico’s reforms mean for labor rights throughout the continent.
Mexican Senate passes labor bill, key to approving new NAFTA
30-Apr-2019 Reuters
The bill enshrines the right of Mexican workers to organize and gives them more control over their contracts.
United States releases annual assessment of foreign trade barriers
18-Apr-2019 Lexology
Alleged barriers from Brazil, Canada, China, European Union, Japan, Mexico and Korea.
Top House Democrat cites labor, enforcement concerns on new NAFTA
3-Apr-2019 Reuters
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said lawmakers could not take up the replacement for NAFTA unless Mexico passes legislation protecting workers’ rights. She also cited concerns over enforcement provisions, among other issues.
US Odyssey Marine will sue Mexico; accuses blockade to submarine mining
28-Mar-2019 The Mazatlán Post
The US company notified its intention to claim compensation of 3,540 million dollars from the Mexican government.
The globalisation of border control and peoples’ resistance
14-Mar-2019 TNI
A workshop aimed to promote a collective analysis of border control, focusing on the power and impunity of transnational corporations, militarization, the externalization of borders, and the link between free trade and migration.
«Au Mexique, les intérêts du Canada sont ceux des entreprises minières»
13-Mar-2019 Sputnik
Les sociétés minières canadiennes ont encore mauvaise presse au Mexique, car elles ne respecteraient pas les droits de peuples autochtones.
Mexico pushing labour reform, won’t ratify new NAFTA with US tariffs in place
4-Mar-2019 CTV
Unless the Trump administration lifts the punishing tariffs it has imposed on Mexican steel and aluminum imports, Mexico is prepared to keep the status quo with the 25-year-old trade deal.
Tosepan: Resistance and renewal in Mexico
22-Feb-2019 Resilience
Mexico has signed 12 free trade agreements with 44 nations and 28 bilateral investment treaties. The grim consequences of globalization in Mexico are by now familiar and yet, throughout Mexico, there is a florescence of inspiring resistance and alternatives.
Eating NAFTA: Trade, food policies, and the destruction of Mexico
24-Jan-2019 Real Food Media
In her new book, Alyshia Gálvez exposes how changes in policy following implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have fundamentally altered one of the most basic elements of life in Mexico—food.
Bold farm plans in Mexico offer a ray of hope in 2019
17-Jan-2019 IATP
Mexican farmers are on the verge of bold, new plans to completely transform their food and farm system. Will NAFTA 2.0 challenge them?