By KELIN DILLON Following a joint energy trade consultation held in Washington, D.C., between Wednesday, Nov. 30, and Thursday, Dec. 1, Mexican Secretary of the Economy Raquel Buenrostro and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced a number of potential proposals to address Mexico and the United States’ ongoing dispute on Mexican energy policy – including potential “tri-national working groups” –
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By KELIN DILLON According to new reports, the U.S. government has purportedly threatened to appeal to the international treaty the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) if it cannot reach an agreement with Mexico on the subject of genetically modified corn crops, an issue which Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Marcelo Ebrard announced on Monday, Nov. 28, must be fully discussed between
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By KELIN DILLON On the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 22, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) confirmed that the 17th Pacific Alliance Summit – which was set to be held in Mexico from Wednesday, Nov. 23, to Friday, Nov. 25 – will now be suspended indefinitely as summit participant and Peruvian President Pedro Castillo remains barred from leaving Peru
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By KELIN DILLON According to former United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) negotiator Kenneth Smith, Mexico may face historic sanctions levied against it by the United States and Canada if the trio cannot reach an agreement on Mexican energy policy during its presently ongoing energy panel. These pending sanctions have the potential to be the highest penalties ever seen under the 20-plus-year history
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By KELIN DILLON The strained relationship between the United States and Mexico came to a head this week as the 75-day-long consultation process, as requested by the United States to address Mexico’s purported violations of the free trade United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), began between the two countries on Tuesday, Aug. 23 – and has reportedly already started on the wrong
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OPINION By KELIN DILLON After a continued period of tension between Mexico, Canada and the United States over Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial energy policies, which directly violate portions of the free-trade United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), and his continued public rhetoric against foreign and private investment, López Obrador has now publicly floated the idea of Mexico reneging
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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Jan. 12, U.S. legislators sent a letter to the head of U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai protesting purported repeated infractions of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) committed by partner countries Mexico and Canada, going so far as to directly ask for intervention by U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration into the issue. Highlighting delays and
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By KELIN DILLON In a move on Tuesday, Oct. 27, Mexico’s Secretariat of Finance dedicated 154.7 million pesos in budget to the General Directorate of Legal Consulting for International Trade of the Secretariat of the Economy, to be used during 2022 to defend the country against potential litigation from outside countries. The International Trade Legal Consultancy likewise provides advice and
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Peña Nieto Not Under Investigation What? Fake news in the Wall Street Journal? You bet ya! This past week, the WSJ published a news item claiming that Mexican Fiscal General Alejandro Gertz Manero had evidence that corruption in the Pemex-related Emilio Lozoya Austin case reached to the highest level, inferring that former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto
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