By RICARDO CASTILLO With Canada joining the newly drafted United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the stage is set for the leaders of the three nations to sign the accord, once their respective senates have revised it. It is generally thought that the signing ceremony, if there is one, will be circa Nov. 29 or 30, 2018. On Wednesday. Oct. 3, U.S. President Donald Trump
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Canada, in an eleventh-hour bid to not be left out of a revamped North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), agreed late Sunday, Sept. 30, to join in a modernized trade agreement that would otherwise have become a bilateral accord between Mexico and the United States. The new agreement, which U.S. President Donald J. Trump
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO After the storm comes the calm. On Friday, Aug. 31, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer sent to Congress the done free-trade agreement between Mexico and the United States, leaving Canada out of the deal…for the moment. Talks between Lighthizer and Canadian NAFTA negotiator Chrystia Freeland at the end of the day did not go sour, but the two could
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Hold the tequila! During the bilateral U.S.-Mexico celebration on Monday, Aug. 27, because the administrations of Donald Trump and Enrique Peña Nieto had come to agreement, Mexico’s Peña Nieto invited The Don to a tequila toast that the U.S. president referred as to the new Mexico-U.S. Trade Agreement. In fact, Mexico’s still greenhorn diplomat, Foreign Relations Secretary Luis
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The recent exchange of love letters between the unlikely pen pals of U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) only serves to confirm the statement I made in a recent column regarding the potential of similarities between the two: Birds of a feather flock together. AMLO sent a four-point letter to Trump via U.S.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO With the dust from Mexico’s July 1 electoral storm finally beginning to wane, it is definitely time to start talking again about the nation’s international future regarding free trade. And believe you me, the upcoming free-trade talks agenda, set to begin next week, is going to be a doozy. For starters, Mexican business organizations will host the fifth
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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