USTR: Mexico not 100% compliant with USMCA

United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer past week accused Mexico of failing to comply with the USMCA, the trilateral escaped commercialized pact that is up for reappraisal adjacent year.

He noted that his bureau is successful talks with Mexican officials astir the alleged breaches earlier asserting that “it doesn’t marque a batch of consciousness to speech astir extending” the statement arsenic things stand.

Greer’s remarks came during a speech with writer Maria Bartiromo astatine the Economic Club of New York past Tuesday.

“There are a batch of things that the Mexicans are not doing that they’re expected to beryllium doing,” helium said.

“There are areas wherever they’re expected to beryllium complying with the USMCA, wherever they’re not. This could beryllium energy, telecommunications services, agricultural, each kinds of things,” Greer said without going into specifics.

In airy of the alleged situation, the commercialized typical said that his bureau is successful talks with Mexican officials “about however they tin travel into amended compliance with the USMCA” up of the scheduled reappraisal of the pact successful 2026.

The conversations with the Mexican authorities are needed, Greer said, “because it doesn’t marque a batch of consciousness to speech astir extending the USMCA oregon updating it erstwhile Mexico is not adjacent complying with important parts of it.”

He said that the talks with Mexico person been taking spot “fairly quietly.”

“We don’t, you know, person large property conferences astir this,” Greer said.

“… Our anticipation and anticipation is that wrong the adjacent period oregon truthful we’ll person a amended consciousness of wherever Mexico sits connected a batch of these issues and we mightiness beryllium successful a amended presumption to person a much ceremonial reappraisal of the statement with Mexico,” helium said.

The Mexican authorities has acknowledged that its U.S. counterpart has concerns astir compliance with the USMCA, and has indicated that it wants to resoluteness those concerns earlier the ceremonial commencement of the commercialized pact review.

In a code successful Mexico City’s cardinal quadrate connected Sunday, President Claudia Sheinbaum expressed assurance that Mexico volition scope a “good” statement with the United States and different commercialized partners.

She said past period that the USMCA “will continue.”

“Obviously, we person tariffs contiguous connected a scope of products that springiness a antithetic information [to Mexico’s commercialized narration with the United States], but the immense bulk of what is exported [to the U.S.] doesn’t person tariffs,” Sheinbaum said connected Sept. 18.

“… The 3 countries hold — evidently Canada and Mexico hold — connected strengthening the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement,” she said.

For his part, U.S. President Donald Trump has both questioned whether the USMCA is inactive needed and indicated that he wants to “renegotiate” the statement alternatively than conscionable reappraisal it.

Greer questions wherefore determination is simply a trilateral commercialized pact successful North America 

Later successful his speech with Bartiromo, Greer said that the U.S.-Canada commercialized narration “is truthful antithetic from the U.S.-Mexico narration successful truthful galore ways.”

USMCA reappraisal volition beryllium ‘more bilateral than trilateral,’ says system minister

“It’s absorbing if you look astatine NAFTA and past USMCA, it’s astir like: Why did we bundle it each together? I mean, the reply is it looks, … it sounds nice, right? It’s similar a geopolitical thing,” helium said.

“… But the world is … we person issues with the Canadians that are circumstantial to Canada and issues with the Mexicans that are circumstantial to Mexico. And the Canadians and the Mexicans, they surely commercialized betwixt them, but not that much,” Greer said.

“So I deliberation a batch of our existent negotiations going guardant volition astir apt be, you know, astir bilateral. There are going to beryllium definite issues that a trilateral solution mightiness beryllium helpful, but I deliberation we’re going to walk a batch of clip conscionable one-on-one with each of these countries,” helium said.

After Greer’s remarks past Tuesday, Mexico’s Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard agreed that overmuch of the negotiations during the 2026 reappraisal of the trilateral USMCA escaped commercialized pact volition beryllium bilateral alternatively than betwixt Mexico, the United States and Canada.

Ebrard said it is “inevitable” that the reappraisal volition see bilateral negotiations, arsenic determination are chiseled bilateral commercialized relationships wrong the model of the trilateral pact.

By Mexico News Daily main unit writer Peter Davies ([email protected])