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
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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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
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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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
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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 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 U.S. President Donald Trump’s claimed that his reason for slapping Canada, Mexico and the European Union with tariffs on steel and aluminum was a matter of “national security.” Definitely, the response from all of the nations in question — friendly allies all of them — is that Trump’s reason is pure, unadulterated humbug. None of the affected and definitely offended leaders liked
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