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Source: AFP
Mexico volition combat to support its escaped commercialized statement with the United States and Canada successful the look of President Donald Trump's commercialized war, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday.
"We volition support the USMCA due to the fact that it has been beneficial for the 3 countries. If President Trump takes a antithetic approach, we volition beryllium prepared for immoderate circumstance, but intelligibly we privation the USMCA to remain," she said astatine her greeting quality conference.
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) replaced the erstwhile NAFTA accord successful July 2020, aft Trump successfully pushed for a renegotiation during his archetypal word successful office.
It is owed to beryllium reviewed by July adjacent year.
Mexico replaced China successful 2023 arsenic the largest trading spouse with the United States, which buys much than 80 percent of its exports.
Sheinbaum has called the USMCA the "only mode we can vie with Asian countries, peculiarly China," and "one of the champion commercialized agreements successful history" -- echoing Trump's erstwhile precocious praise of the deal.
Trump has announced assorted tariffs targeting Mexico, arsenic good arsenic respective argumentation reversals, arsenic portion of his planetary commercialized war.
While helium near Mexico disconnected the database of nations facing his steep "reciprocal tariffs," its carmakers arsenic good arsenic alloy and aluminum exporters inactive look duties.
The preferential attraction fixed to Mexico and Canada showed the value of the USMCA, of which Trump "speaks highly," Sheinbaum said.
"The USMCA has been maintained successful galore areas, with the objection of immoderate issues successful the automotive, alloy and aluminum sectors, which we are moving on," she added.
Source: AFP
