Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum sent a message to Republican candidate Donald Trump, assuring him that the free trade agreement (T-MEC) is “indispensable” for the United States economy because they have a lot of integration with Mexico and Canada.
“We are going to come to an agreement. They are campaigning, obviously there are also greater stridency in one sense or another, but they know and we know that the agreement is indispensable, within the framework of our sovereignty,” Sheinbaum said at her press conference.
These statements come after former US President Donald Trump announced in a speech in Michigan his intentions to renegotiate the T-MEC if he returns to the White House.
Before attendees at the Detroit Economic Club, Trump outlined a series of drastic measures aimed at what he describes as a “collapsing” US automotive industry.
“I will formally notify Mexico and Canada of my intention to invoke the renegotiation clause after six years of the agreement,” Trump said on Thursday, October 10.
Donald Trump outlined a series of drastic measures aimed at what he describes as a “collapsing” American automotive industry.
What did Sheinbaum say about Trump’s statements to modify the T-MEC?
Sheinbaum dismissed Donald Trump’s statements by assuring that “the United States already depends a lot on Mexico,” because it registers a “historical maximum” of exports to that country.
“We are the main exporter (to the United States) and we also have a very important relationship of the economies, our objective is also that this advances towards Central America and South America to be able to make even greater strength of the entire continent without closing ourselves off to other markets,” she detailed.
In addition, the president clarified that Trump “referred to products that come in particular from China that are not reported and that, even, in the current T-MEC there are limitations.”
Although she reiterated that an agreement will be reached with whoever wins the United States elections on November 5, when it is decided who of the two candidates, Donald Trump or Kamala Harris, becomes President of the United States.
“So whoever wins, whether it is President Trump or Vice President Kamala, we will come to an agreement. Our economies are very integrated,” she said.
Source: elfinanciero
