Canada to send largest-ever trade mission to Mexico in 2026

A ample Canadian commercialized ngo is acceptable to sojourn Mexico aboriginal adjacent year, with stops scheduled successful Mexico City, Monterrey and Guadalajara.

Canada’s ambassador to Mexico, Cameron Mackay, told Canadian outlet CBC News successful a caller interrogation that the Canadian authorities is laying the groundwork for a “Team Canada” commercialized ngo to Mexico adjacent February.

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He said that the ngo volition beryllium led by Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc, who met with Mexico’s Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard successful Mexico City earlier this month.

Mackay told CBC News that hundreds of Canadian businesses person applied to articulation the mission.

“In presumption of the fig of businesses who person applied to articulation the curate and travel and look astatine export opportunities here, it’ll beryllium the biggest … [trade mission] we’ve ever done,” said the ambassador, who arrived successful Mexico successful 2024 aft serving arsenic Canada’s precocious commissioner successful India.

Such is the involvement successful participating successful the commercialized ngo from the Canadian concern assemblage that determination whitethorn not beryllium capable country for each applicants, Mackay said.

“There’s lone truthful overmuch logistical capacity. We truly privation to marque definite that the businesses themselves are export-ready,” helium said.

The Feb. 15-20 commercialized ngo volition absorption connected opportunities successful the agriculture, precocious manufacturing, accusation communications exertion and cleanable vigor sectors, arsenic good arsenic originative industries.

The ngo volition instrumentality spot conscionable a fewer months earlier Mexico, Canada and the United States initiate a ceremonial reappraisal of the USMCA, the North American escaped commercialized pact that superseded NAFTA successful 2020.

During Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s sojourn to Mexico City successful September, Mexico and Canada pledged to deepen ties and enactment to fortify the escaped commercialized pact they stock with the United States. Carney besides met with President Claudia Sheinbaum astatine the G7 Summit successful Canada successful June and astatine this month’s World Cup gully successful Washington, D.C., wherever the 2 leaders sat down with U.S. President Donald Trump.

During Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s sojourn to Mexico City successful September, Mexico and Canada pledged to deepen ties and enactment to fortify the escaped commercialized pact they stock with the United States. (Presidencia)

The worth of commercialized betwixt Mexico and Canada is dwarfed by the worth of commercialized betwixt some Mexico and the United States, and Canada and the U.S.

But Mexico-Canada commercialized has grown importantly successful the 3 decades since NAFTA took effect. Two-way commercialized was worthy astir CAD $56 cardinal (US $40.75 billion) successful 2024, according to the Canadian government, up from little than CAD $5 cardinal earlier NAFTA entered into unit successful 1994.

According to the Mexican government, Mexico’s apical export to Canada past twelvemonth was centrifugal cars, portion its apical import from Canada was car parts. The 2 countries export a scope of different products to each other, including cultivation products and assorted intermediate goods.

Canada is the largest overseas capitalist successful Mexico’s mining sector, portion overseas nonstop concern of Canadian economies crossed the Mexican system totaled much than US $3 cardinal past year. Canada ranked arsenic the 4th biggest overseas capitalist successful Mexico successful 2024 down the United States, Japan and Germany.

Networking, concern briefings and tract visits 

According to the Canadian government, the commercialized ngo to Mexico volition see “networking opportunities with Minister LeBlanc and Mexican concern leaders” arsenic good arsenic “on-site concern briefings by our Trade Commissioners, elder officials and cardinal section manufacture experts” and “sector-specific tract visits.”

For representatives from tiny and medium-sized Canadian enterprises, determination volition besides beryllium an accidental for “pre-arranged business-to-business meetings.”

All participants volition spell to Mexico City and a 2nd metropolis — either Monterrey oregon Guadalajara — depending connected their sector.

The Canadian authorities said that the commercialized ngo to Mexico was organized due to the fact that “Mexico offers a compelling worth proposition for Canadian exporters.”

It noted that the USMCA (known arsenic CUSMA successful Canada and T-MEC successful Mexico) and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership “provide Canadian businesses with important advantages, including tariff-free introduction for 99% of Canada-Mexico traded goods, streamlined customs procedures [and] enhanced concern protections.”

Considering commercialized tensions with the United States, “Canada and Mexico volition request each different much than we ever have,” Ambassador Mackay told CBC News.

“We privation to beryllium moving unneurotic and trying to lick problems together,” helium said.

“With the unit that’s connected the Canadian concern assemblage now, I would accidental there’s ne'er been a amended accidental and much information for Canadian businesses to deliberation astir expanding and looking astatine whether Mexico is simply a bully marketplace for them,” the ambassador added.

* MORE ON THE MEXICO-CANADA RELATIONSHIP:

In 2024, Mexico News Daily published a “Canada successful Focus” bid focusing connected antithetic aspects of the Mexico-Canada relationship. Here are links to 3 of the articles from that series:

• Mexico and Canada: 80 years of diplomatic relations
• Brews without borders: How Beermex links Canada and Mexico done beer
• Going beyond clichés to foster understanding: An interrogation with Graeme C. Clark, (former) Canadian ambassador to Mexico

With reports from CBC News