By Kylie Madry
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico is doing whatever it can to secure a local trade contract with the U.S. and Canada, the Latin American country’s deputy economy minister stated in an interview released on Friday.
The 3 surrounding countries, and significant partners in commerce, have gotin a trade tussle after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump threatened to slap tariffs on the nations to the north and the south if they did not clamp down on drugs and migrants coming into the U.S.
Mexico is working on both problems in order to “come to the table” to workout without barriers, Luis Rosendo Gutierrez informed outlet Inside U.S. Trade.
Since Trump’s tariff risk, Mexico hasactually introduced an offense on contraband items from Asia coming into the nation, and authorities took a record quantity of fentanyl. They have likewise apprehended thousands of migrants, promising to avoid them from making it north.
In a declaration released late Friday, U.S. President Joe Biden thanked Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and the nation’s military and law enforcement authorities for taking over twenty million dosages of illegal fentanyl.
Mexican authorities haveactually been in touch with Trump allies, Gutierrez included, though they have no