Mexican Trade Team: Regardless of Canada The Deal Between the U.S. and Mexico Still Stands – IOTW Report

Mexican Trade Team: Regardless of Canada The Deal Between the U.S. and Mexico Still Stands

CTH:

So much good news: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The trade deal between the United States and Mexico will stand even if Canada does not come to an agreement with the Trump administration in the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Mexico’s foreign minister said on Monday.

“If for any reason the government of Canada and the United States do not reach an agreement, we already know that there will still be a deal between Mexico and the United States.”

~ Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray (link)

Remember those “private meetings” between Jesus Seade and Robert Lighthizer?

It is said: a picture is worth a thousand words.  Cue the audio visual:

The incoming Mexican President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador,(AMLO)’s representative is Jesus Seade. The outgoing Mexican President Pena Nieto’s representative is Mexican Secretary of Economy Idelfonso Guajardo.

Why the joy in Seade and the defeated Guajardo?  The answer is in the details:

One of President Trump’s principal objectives in the renegotiation is to ensure the agreement benefits American workers.  The United States and Mexico have agreed to a Labor chapter that brings labor obligations into the core of the agreement, makes them fully enforceable, and represents the strongest provisions of any trade agreement. read more

SNIP—- See also:

Preliminary Details of U.S./Mexico Trade Deal

6 Comments on Mexican Trade Team: Regardless of Canada The Deal Between the U.S. and Mexico Still Stands

  1. @MJA; I beg to differ. Trudeau just got handed a gift that may well give him another term (five more years) majority government. One of the candidates named Maxime Bernier a failed candidate for the leadership during the spring convention decided to strike out on his own and form a new conservative party to run in the upcoming election. He’s our own Hillary Clinton. If he follows through there’s a real chance he could siphon off enough votes from the Conservative Party to turn a Liberal Party rout into a majority Liberal Government. We are in deep, deep trouble.

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