MEXICO CITY.- This Friday, during his usual morning press conference, the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardoassured that the trade negotiations con USA They are “very advanced”, while avoiding commenting on the sudden announcement of the American president, Donald Trumpof suspend trade negotiations with Ottawa.
“We are going to wait to see how the relationship with Canada progresses. In the case of Mexico, we are very advanced,” the president stressed.
“He Secretary of Economy (Marcelo Ebrard) is going next week to APEC (in South Korea), there he will still have meetings with President Trump’s Administration to close some agreements that we still need, but we are doing very well,” he added.
Sheinbaum trusts that the Economic Treaty with the USA will continue
After the president of the USA, @realDonaldTrumpannounced that it would cancel trade relations with Canada, the president @Claudiashein He pointed out that in the case of Mexico “we are very advanced”, because the… pic.twitter.com/EkelJg1vka
— Politico MX (@politicomx) October 24, 2025
The Mexican president thus refused to talk about Trump’s announcement, which surprised the Canadian government with the cancellation of trade agreement negotiations and that in recent weeks he had redoubled his negotiating efforts with Washington to achieve eliminate or reduce tariffs imposed this year to its exports.
Broadcasting a television advertisement
The controversy arose after the broadcast of a television advertisementpaid for province of Ontario and broadcast in the United States, which uses footage of a speech given by the president Ronald Reagan in 1987 in which he explained that the tariffs were negative for workers Americans.
The Canadian government released an anti-tariff ad using the actual words of Ronald Reagan (1987)… this prompted Trump to announce that trade negotiations with Canada are “over.”
pic.twitter.com/BV187MnnzV— Azucena Uresti (@azucenau) October 24, 2025
Two years later, on January 1, 1989, the Free Trade Agreement between Canada and the US that was the precursor of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) of 1994 with the inclusion of Mexico.
Conversations advance for the review of the T-MEC
This Friday, Claudia Sheinbaum He avoided commenting on the disagreement between the United States and Canada and recalled that they are making progress in the talks for the T-MEC reviewupdate of the trade pact sealed between the three countries in 2019.
However, he specified that the US authorities, during this review, have raised some points that are considered barriers to the trade agreement.
“We don’t consider many of them that way, but it is quite advanced,” he insisted.
A week ago, Secretary Marcelo Ebrard indicated before the plenary session of the Mexican Senate that the USMCA was going to “survive” after the review scheduled for 2026, despite threats from Trump, who has repeatedly postponed the application of tariffs to the southern neighbor.
The review of the USMCA in 2026 occurs amid tariff tensions since the US president took office on January 20, with levies on sectors such as steel, aluminum and automotive.
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