Sheinbaum hosts Canadian ministers as Mexico works to uphold USMCA

President Claudia Sheinbaum continued her seemingly nonstop efforts to enactment up commercialized relations Tuesday by hosting Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand and Finance and Revenue Minister François-Philippe Champagne astatine the National Palace. 

Canada and Mexico, which stock a free-trade statement (USMCA) with the United States, person been making moves to fortify their strategical concern arsenic commercialized relations falter betwixt the U.S. and its North American allies.

During their two-day sojourn to Mexico City August 5-6, Anand and Champagne attended meetings with Sheinbaum and their respective Mexican furniture counterparts, aiming to beforehand shared priorities specified arsenic economical growth, determination information and bilateral trade.

“We strengthened the narration betwixt our countries,” Sheinbaum wrote successful a station to X, which included respective photographs of the meeting.

On July 16, President Sheinbaum held a telephone speech with the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney successful which the 2 agreed to fortify commercialized collaboration.  

“We some agreed that the [USMCA] commercialized statement needed to beryllium respected,” Sheinbaum said successful her regular property league pursuing that call. 

The president besides said that Carney planned to sojourn Mexico successful an authoritative capacity. Although the day has not been set, the sojourn by Anand and Champagne lays the groundwork for Carney’s trip.

“It was a pleasance to person Min. Anita Anand and Min. François-Philippe Champagne astatine the Embassy of Canada successful Mexico.

It was a large accidental to socialize, reply questions, admit the enactment of our employees, and speech astir the narration betwixt Canada and Mexico”. https://t.co/1CfA7eHq5G

— Canada successful Mexico (@CanEmbMexico) August 6, 2025

Anand and Champagne planned to conscionable with a typical radical of Canadian and Mexican concern leaders, including cardinal players successful the integrated North American economy, commercialized infrastructure and proviso chains. Anand volition besides enactment successful a associated league of the North American Committee and the Mexican Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, aimed astatine strengthening parliamentary relations betwixt the 2 countries.

“Canada and Mexico are adjacent partners that are agreed by decades of diplomatic, economical and information cooperation,” Anand wrote connected X aft gathering with Sheinbaum connected Tuesday. “…Discussions with the President and members of her authorities precocious cardinal shared priorities successful presumption of economical growth, information and commercialized diversification.” 

As Mexico and Canada enactment to deepen their ties, the 2 countries person faced strained commercialized relations with the United States successful caller months, pursuing the imposition of tariffs by U.S. President Donald Trump. 

With reports from Sin Embargo, El Economista and Reuters