López Obrador Names New Customs Head
Foullon Van Lissum replaces Gen. Rafael Marín Mollinedo, who will now serve as Mexico’s ambassador to the World Trade Organization
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China-Yucatán Ties Date Back 300 Years
Despite being more than 13,500 kilometers apart, China and the southeastern Mexican state of Yucatán have maintained a longstanding relationship that has permeated Maya history and shaped the Yucatecan identity
Read moreMexico Nominates Seade as Candidate for WTO Chief
XINHUA Mexico has formally nominated its veteran trade official Jesús Seade Kuri to be the next director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), thus becoming the first member state to announce a candidate for the post since the WTO officially launched the selection process on Monday, June 8. According to a biographical note posted on the WTO website, Seade
Read moreUSMCA Stability Sorely Needed
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
Read moreMexican, US Negotiators Meet to Talk Tarriffs
By RICARDO CASTILLO U.S. President Donald J. Trump is off visiting the queen in England, but he did not forget that he’s got a bone to pick with Mexico. And to remind everyone that “President Trump is dead serious about taxing Mexican imports,” he left behind acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvane, who on Sunday, June 2, kept
Read moreSupporting Prosperity by Approving the New USMCA
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read moreMessage to Trump: Don’t Mix Migration and Trade
By RICARDO CASTILLO An event that went almost unnoticed in the Mexican media on Thursday, April 4, was the meeting between World Trade Organization (WTO) director general Roberto Azevêdo and Mexican Economy Secretary Graciela Márquez Colín. The main reason why this meeting was not given the press coverage that it should have been afforded was because it was overshadowed by the
Read moreNAFTA to USMCA: A Southern Partnership Perspective
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
Read moreUSMCA Is Uncharted Territory for Signature Nations
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
Read moreTrump-EU Olive Branch Is Laudable First Step in Long Process
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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